HM Prison Usk

Facility profile

Operator

His Majesty's Prison Service

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1844

Region

Usk

Security level

—

Death-row facility

No

• Fred Wes

  1941–1995 · serial killer

  Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995) was an English serial killer and child molester, who committed at least twelve murders between 1967 and 1987 in Gloucestershire, England—the majority with his second wife, Rose West. The victims were girls and young women.

• Dennis Nilsen

  1945–2018 · serial killer

  Dennis Andrew Nilsen (23 November 1945 – 12 May 2018) was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983.

• Peter Manuel

  1927–1958 · serial killer

  Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel (13 March 1927 – 11 July 1958) was a Scottish serial killer known as the Beast of Birkenshaw and the Bedroom Killer who committed the murders of seven people across Lanarkshire, Scotland, between 1956 and 1958.

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  Daniel Khalife

  2001 · soldier

  Daniel Abed Khalife (born 27 September 2001) is a former British Army network engineer and soldier.

• Peter Sutcliffe

  1946–2020 · truck driver

  Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020), also known as Peter Coonan, was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980.

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  Ian Watkins

  1977–2025 · singer

  Ian David Karslake Watkins (30 July 1977 – 11 October 2025) was a Welsh singer, songwriter, and convicted child sex offender.

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  Oscar Slater

  1872–1948

  Oscar Joseph Slater (8 January 1872 – 31 January 1948) was the victim of a notorious miscarriage of justice in Scotland.

• Zoe Progl

  1928

  Zoe Progl (28 March 1928 – before 2021) was a British criminal.

• Lorraine Thorpe

  1994

  Lorraine Thorpe (born 1994) is a British woman who is Britain's youngest female double murderer.

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