Malcolm Fairley

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Malcolm Fairley (17 August 1952 – 28 May 2024) was a British criminal and sex offender, who in 1984 committed a series of burglaries and violent sexual crimes in the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire areas of England, and more specifically, in an area of those counties known as the Triangle. Fairley earned the nickname The Fox not only because he would build dens in the houses of his victims, before committing his crimes, which included rape, indecent assault and violent assault on the occupants, but also for what was considered by police to be his cunning. Fairley committed the first crime for which he would become notorious in April 1984, and went on to commit several more offences, many of them using increasing violence against his victims, over the summer of that year. He was finally apprehended in September 1984 after briefly moving his activities to his native County Durham, and when police linked that crime to those in the Home Counties. The operation to catch him involved 200 police officers, and is an early example of computers being used to help cross-reference information during a criminal investigation. The operation cost Bedfordshire Police £200,000. Fairley was convicted at St Albans Crown Court in February 1985, and given six life sentences. Presiding judge, Mr Justice Caulfield described Fairley as "a decadent advertisement for evil pornographers".