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John Sweeney Dead After Life Sentence | Leeds News
John Sweeney, the convicted killer of two women whose bodies were dumped in canals across London and the Netherlands, has died at age 62 — reportedly from cancer while serving a life sentence at HMP Whitemoor. His violent past includes a near-fatal axe attack on girlfriend Delia Balmer, who survived thanks to a neighbor’s intervention and later penned a harrowing memoir turned into a TV miniseries. The murders of American model Melissa Halstead (1990) and Paula Fields (2001) remain chillingly incomplete — both victims’ heads, hands, and feet were never found. As authorities honor the victims’…
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