Double killer John Sweeney dies without revealing ‘where his victims’ heads are’

Noora Mykkanen | Senior Live News reporter Published August 26, 2026 10:31pm Updated August 26, 2026 10:31pm John Sweeney was convicted of the murder of two former girlfriends, and attempting to kill Delia Balmer with an axe (Picture: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire) A convicted killer who murdered two women and threw their body parts in canals has died without confessing what he did to their remains. Depraved killer John Sweeney, 69, was jailed for the murder of ex-girlfriends Paula Fields and Melissa Halstead in 2011. Some of their remains were discovered in a canal in London and Rotterdam, Netherlands, but it took years before Sweeney was linked to the murders and brought to justice. He is believed to have died at HMP Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire, on August 14, while serving his whole-life sen