A PATIENT at a high-security psychiatric hospital who killed two women and ate the flesh from one of his victim’s arms has been jailed for at least 21 years.

Graham Fisher, aged 36, of Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire, was today given an indeterminate prison sentence at Lewes Crown Court.

In July, Bromley-born Fisher pleaded guilty to the manslaughters of Clare Letchford, aged 40, and Beryl O’Connor, aged 75, in Hastings in January 1998.

He also admitted the attempted murder and attempted rape of a Czech student, now aged 30, on a Hastings to London Charing Cross train in the same month and to two offences of the rape of a woman in her early 40s at an address in Bromley on separate dates in 1991.

The court heard Fisher, deemed to have a severe and enduring complex personality disorder, had confessed to the offences while being held at Broadmoor after saying he found it hard to live with his crimes.

Prosecutors said Fisher targeted lonely women, some of whom he knew, to satisfy what one psychiatrist described as a “sexually sadistic” aspect to his personality.

He told investigators, after confessing to the rapes, that he gained a thrill from seeing his victim frightened.

Fisher, who previously lived in St Mary Cray, Mottingham and Sydenham, said: “She looked really scared but this really turned me on even more.”

Fisher had previously been convicted of the indecent assault of two female Spanish students at a flat in Eastbourne in May 1998.

He was sentenced to five years in prison but in August 2001 he was transferred to Broadmoor under the Mental Health Act where he has remained ever since.

Detective Chief Inspector Trevor Bowles, of Sussex Police Major Crime Branch, said: "This was a long and complex investigation, which was first re-examined in 2007.

"A review of the case followed and it was during this period that Fisher's admissions in Broadmoor began. The six offences to which Fisher pleaded guilty demonstrate the extreme danger he poses to the public.

"His offences have wrecked the lives of many individuals and families.

"We worked closely with the Complex Case Unit of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and I am grateful to them and to our leading counsel, Richard Barton, as well as my investigative team, who have all shown the passion and desire to seek justice for Fisher's victims."