Sidney Cooke

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Sidney Charles Cooke (born 18 April 1927) is an English convicted child molester, murderer and suspected serial killer and serial rapist serving two life sentences. He was the leader of a child sex ring suspected of up to twenty child murders of young boys in the 1970s and 1980s. Cooke and other members of the ring were convicted of three killings in total, although he was only convicted of one himself. At 99, he is oldest inmate currently imprisoned in the United Kingdom. He is also believed to be the oldest living inmate imprisoned in the world. He is also the second-oldest ever to be held in custody in British history, following Ralph Clarke who died in 2021 near the age of 106. In June 2025, At the age of 98, Sidney Cooke broke the record as the oldest prisoner to ever have a parole hearing in the UK, and very likely the world. Cooke is suspected by police of killing the three boys with the ring; he was named by gang member Leslie Bailey as the killer of Mark Tildesley in 1984 when...

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