The Angel of Mercy: Andrew Dawson’s Three Murders
In a quiet Derby block of flats, two men were found stabbed to death in their own bathtubs. A pink rose was left on a pillow. A discarded note confessed to the killings and was signed “the Angel of Mercy.”
The man behind it, Andrew Dawson, had already murdered a 91-year-old shopkeeper nearly three decades earlier — and was free on life licence when he killed again.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the full story of Dawson’s crimes, from the 1981 killing in Ormskirk to the 2010 double murder in Chaddesden, the failed system that left him unsupervised, and the whole-life sentence that means he will…
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