Soviet Union was terrorised by a serial-killer schoolteacher for 12 years who drank his victims' blood

A Soviet serial killer whose reign of terror lasted for more than a decade was thought to be so dangerous that he was wheeled into his trial in a steel cage.

Andrei Chikatilo is remembered as 'the Butcher of Rostov', one of the deadliest and most prolific murderers in world history . He was formally convicted in 1992 of 52 deaths over a 12-year period and is suspected of several more.

Chikatilo was born to forced labourers in Stalin’s USSR during the 'Holodomor', a forced famine in his native Ukraine that killed more than three million people in the 1930s.

He was raised on stories of an older brother, Stepan, who had been kidnapped by starving neighbours and killed , cannibali

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