Notorious ‘intercourse dungeon’ monster on loss of life row for 11 murders moved to a different jail
Former British boarding schoolboy Charles Ng, 65, was sentenced to death in 1999 for killing six men, three women, and two children at a cabin in California
Ng was educated at a British boarding school before moving to the US(Image: REX/Shutterstock)
A depraved serial killer who was educated in the UK has been moved from high-security prison to another jail more than 40 years after the sick spree that saw him kill at least 11 people between 1983 and 1985.
Charles Ng, 65, who was found guilty of eleven murders in 1998, has been transferred from San Quentin prison in California to California Medical Centre.
The Hong Kong born killer, who was a pupil at the English boarding school Bentham Grammar before his expulsion for theft as per the Lancaster Guardian. He murdered his victims by kidnapping them and bringing them to a remote cabin in Wilseyville, California, with the help of accomplice Leonard Lake.
Lake and Ng abducted and murdered both men and women, as well as at least two infant children.
The sick pair are believed to have killed most of their male and child victims immediately, however a number of their female victims were subjected to torture and rape before their murders.
The evil duo dubbed their depraved torture and murder spree ‘Operation Miranda’, after a novel that apparently inspired the killing, and meticulously kept lists of names and photographs of their victims.
Many of these women’s horrendous experiences were recorded by Ng and Lake in haunting footage that was eventually used to convict the serial killer.
The pair’s sick acts were eventually brought to an end after Ng was caught stealing a vice from a lumber yard, leading to police to search his car. In the vehicle officers found an illegally modified firearm, the stolen vice, and later an ID card belonging to a missing person.
Following this, police searched Ng and Lake’s cabin, in which items belonging to several of the victims were found, as well as the makeshift cell used to imprison the pair’s captives.
Cops also discovered a makeshift burial site outside the cabin, in which they unearthed around 45 pounds of burned and crushed human bone fragments, corresponding to at least 11 bodies.
While Lake would never be convicted of his crime after committing suicide in custody, his accomplice Ng received the death penalty in 1999 following an extradition from Canada, where the killer had fled to.
As of May this year, the former British school boy has been moved from the notorious San Quentin to a secure medical facility, although prison records state that the killer is still on Death Row.
The move comes after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that San Quentin was to be “transformed from a maximum-security prison into a one-of-a-kind facility focused on improving public safety through rehabilitation and education.”
It is not known exactly why California Medical Facility was selected as Ng’s new site of imprisonment.
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