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| A Broadmoor patient has been charged with murdering two women and attempting to murder a student 11 years ago. | |
| Sussex Police said Graham Fisher, 36, is accused of the murders of Clare Letchford, 40, and Beryl O'Connor, 75, in Hastings, East Sussex, in 1998. | |
| He has also been charged with the attempted murder and attempted rape of a Czech student, now aged 30, on a Hastings to Charing Cross train. | He has also been charged with the attempted murder and attempted rape of a Czech student, now aged 30, on a Hastings to Charing Cross train. |
| He will appear before Hastings magistrates by video link on 15 July. | He will appear before Hastings magistrates by video link on 15 July. |
| The bodies of Clare Letchford and Beryl O'Connor, who was known as Dornie, were found eight days apart in their Hastings homes in January 1998. | |
| Ms Letchford was found in her rented basement home in Cornwallis Gardens on 18 January. | |
| Mrs O'Connor was discovered in her flat 100 yards (91m) away in Holmesdale Gardens on 26 January. | |
| They had been strangled before being set on fire. | |
| The Czech student was attacked on 25 January in a toilet on a Hastings to London Charing Cross train. | |
| She had arrived three months earlier in East Sussex as an English language student. | |
| Police said the accused, Graham Fisher, was formerly from Bromley, south-east London, and was now at Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire. |