As ITV's crime drama Until I Kill You continues to grip viewers at home, let's take a look at how murderer John Sweeney was finally caught after six years on the run
Since debuting on our screens, ITV’s new crime drama Until I Kill You has got viewers at home gripped. Based on the book Living With A Serial Killer, the series depicts the story of Delia Balmer, who survived an attack by her ex-partner, murderer John Sweeney.
John, who is now in his 60s, was born in Kirkdale in Liverpool in the 1950s. During the mid-1980s, John, who trained as a carpenter and joiner, moved to London where he met Melissa Halstead before following her to Vienna and Amsterdam. John’s next known victim was Paula Fields, whose dismembered remains were found in Regent's Canal in 2001. When her body was found, it had been cut up into 10 pieces and dumped in the canal in a series of holdalls. Her feet were missing from the discovered remains.
After one serious assault, John was released on bail, leading to him attacking her once more. Having left Delia on the brink of death, John went on the run and it wasn’t until six years later that he was arrested at a central London building site after Paula’s remains were discovered.
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