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"It was such a feeling.
I have never, ever had that feeling.
It was a feeling of power. I would
say it was better than sex."
Grimson, 40,
was a petty officer in the British royal navy that has
become known in the media as a man crippled with "physical
ugliness." In fact, his nickname among his college's was
`Frank' - short for Frankenstein. And it was this ugliness
that led him to take vengeance on young, good looking
sailors. As good a reason as any I suppose.
The homosexual Grimson would look at a group of young
sailors and would single one of them out as a potential
victim, which is what he had done this since the start of
his 22-year navy career.
His M.O. would contain giving his telephone number to young
sailors telling them if they ever needed a lift up north -
where his family lived near Newcastle - to call him.
In December 1997, 18-year-old Nicholas Wright, who had only
been onboard the HMS Edinburgh for only one week, took him
up on his offer, but then spurned his sexual advances, so
Grimson beat him senseless with a baseball bat.
The teenager cried out in pain, begging Grimson not to rape
him.
Grimson later said he knew he would brutally murder Nicholas
when the pretty young man cried out: `Why don't you kill me
then?' It's fair to say that he probably would have done
that anyway.
Grimson sliced off part of Nicholas Wright's right ear, cut
his throat and threw his body to the floor. Later, during an
interview with police, Grimson explained he wanted to
dismember the body as a trophy. He also admitted performing
a sex act on the dead body.
He then carried Nicholas's body to the bathroom, dumped it
in the bath, took a shower and went to sleep.
The next day, he wrapped Nicholas in black bin liners and
drove him to a shallow grave along the A272 near the village
of Cheriton and hid the body in a hedgerow.
Grimson went on to call this first murder "The Nicholas
Wright experience", a pretty good name for a band I'd
reckon.
About a year later he found his next victim at the Hogshead
pub in Palmerston Road, Southsea. It was the barman there,
Sion Jenkins, 20, that took his eye. He was good looking and
vulnerable, according to Grimson.
Grimson spotted him outside the pub at Joanna's nightclub in
Southsea and decided it would be fun to lured him to his
flat at 143A London Road in North End.
Once there he stripped Sion, tortured him and raped him
several times, and it must have been fun because he decided
to keep him there overnight. He left him the next day bound
by his wrists and ankles over the bath. Eventually he came
home to finish the job. He smashed his skull in with a
baseball bat.
Grimson later told police he didn't get the same thrill as
with Nicholas because Sion didn't put up a fight.
Eventually Police decided to look into the disappearance of
Nicholas and questioned his fellow seaman. One name kept
popping up in there interviews, and once called in for
questioning, Grimson admitted to his murder. The next day he
thought he should also tell the police about Sion's murder
as well.
When he was
sentenced to two life sentences, Mr Justice Cresswell told
Grimson: "You are a serial killer in nature if not by
number. You are a highly dangerous serial killer who killed
two young men in horrifying and appalling circumstances."
"There were
some lucky people around who stayed with me.
They were lucky because they avoided being killed."
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