Scotland Yard ‘covered up’ London Underground serial killer who pushed 18

Having brutally murdered his cellmate, William Boyd, Kelly allegedly told police about his violent rampages on the Tube system while being questioned.

He claimed to have pushed 18 people off Northern Line platforms and into oncoming trains.

Platt originally thought that Kelly had lied about the killings, but his investigations showed that Kelly was at the scene of a number of reported suicides on the London Underground, The Independent reports.

He apparently killed his victims in the 1970s by pushing them onto the tracks.

Kelly was convicted of killing his cellmate. Kelly was next to him.’.

Another homeless man, Maurice Weighly, was found murdered in Soho in 1977 – but Kelly was cleared after it was revealed the key witness had been extremely drunk.

Geoff Platt said Kiernan Kelly admitted being a serial killer when he interviewed him for a separate killing in 1984 – but police chiefs decided not to take action to avoid public panic.

“He was loaded with adrenaline, he was loaded with testosterone, he couldn’t stop talking and he came out and started telling everything”, he said.

And he claims the awful crimes, committed by Kiernan Kelly, were covered up by the police, because if word got out people would be too terrified to ever use the Tube again.

However, Platt claimed Kelly was only jailed for two previous murders and that police deliberately kept the details of his alleged killing spree away from the public. Kelly attacked Boyd, knocking him to the floor and kicking him in the head before eventually strangling him with his socks.

He was also charged with attempted murder in 1984 when he was accused of pushing an elderly man in front of a train in Kensington Station. Due to a lack of evidence, however, he was acquitted.

Platt also believes that financial costs may have been part of the reason for the reluctance to investigate Kelly’s crimes.

“It was a cover-up”, said Platt.

“It was so easy for him to get away with”.

Metro.co.uk contacted Scotland Yard which explained the allegations were being dealt by British Transport Police who in turn made the following statement: ‘We are aware of the claims included in this book but given the passage of time since they are alleged to have been committed these would prove hard to substantiate without further evidence.

“We would invite Mr Platt to submit any information he has on these matters to us”.