Abdel
Baset al-Megrahi
Libyan
Lockerbie bomber who spent 9 months as a student in Cardiff.
Ramzi
Yousef
Was
involved in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in which
six people were killed. When his Philipino hideout was uncovered,
intelligence agents found chemistry books that had been stolen
from libraries in Swansea. Yousef studied electrical engineering
at the West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education.
Aleister
Crowley
Attended
decadent parties thrown by Lord Tredegar at Tredegar House near
Newport.
Fred and
Rosemary West
Enjoyed
day trips to Barry Island.
Charles
Bronson
One
of Britain's most violent criminals spent part of his childhood
in Aberystwyth.
Idi Amin
Whilst
training with the Ugandan olympic team Amin would visit Cardiff
to go swimming in the Empire pool. Later he would become dictator
of Uganda and was responsible for the deaths of 400,000 of his
countrymen.
Rudolf
Hess
Imprisoned
at Pen-y-fal, the County Mental Hospital of Abergavenny during
WW2. Apparently the hapless Nazi, who'd parachuted into Britain,
fell in love with the Welsh countryside while out on his daily
walks.
Joseph
Stalin
Briefly
visited the South Wales valleys to garner support and raise funds
for the Russian Revolution.
Ian
Paisley
Scary
preacher and religious bigot attended South Wales Bible College.
Nick
Griffin
Unpleasant
English public-school fascist leader currently residing in rural
Wales. Recently entertained French fascist Jean Marie le Pen in
the village of Llandrinio, near Welshpool. Charming.