A former police officer, who once conspired to become a serial killer, has been sentenced to prison again for posting online fantasies about raping and killing women and girls.
Brian Darby, aged 80, was given a life sentence in 2002 after attempting to murder a woman in west London by breaking into her home and placing a wire around her neck.
Since being released on license in 2017, he was discovered to have created indecent images of children and to have written online about strangling, suffocating, and drowning women.
Darby, from Enfield in north London, previously admitted to multiple charges related to these offenses.
On Friday at Wood Green Crown Court, he was sentenced to four years in prison, plus an additional two years on license.
The court was told that Darby, who worked as a health and safety officer for the BBC during the 1980s, began viewing indecent images of children online almost immediately after his release.
He was arrested in February for producing and sharing such images, and police also uncovered a series of online conversations in which he expressed rape and murder fantasies.
Court Outcome
Conviction and Sentencing Details
Sentenced
Detected legal outcome
A former police officer, who once conspired to become a serial killer, has been sentenced to prison again for posting online fantasies about raping and killing women and girls. Brian Darby, aged 80, was given a life sentence in 2002 afte...
Prison sentence
A former police officer, who once conspired to become a serial killer, has been sentenced to prison again for posting online fantasies about raping and killing women and girls
Life or indeterminate sentence
life
Brian Darby, aged 80, was given a life sentence in 2002 after attempting to murder a woman in west London by breaking into her home and placing a wire around her neck
Prison sentence
four years
On Friday at Wood Green Crown Court, he was sentenced to four years in prison, plus an additional two years on license
