A man who grew up in the UK will face the death penalty after being convicted for a string of vicious murders and the sexual torture of victims.
Charles Ng was convicted of murdering 11 people including two baby boys, six men and three women in a short period from 1984 to 1985 along with his partner Leonard Lake.
The serial killer was born in Hong Kong in 1960 and was the son of a rich businessman, but still had a troubled childhood.
Expelled from schools and arrested for shoplifting at 15, Ng was eventually packed off to board at Bentham Grammar School after briefly staying with relatives in the Lancashire village of New Longton, near Preston.
Ng was quickly expelled from Bentham after it was revealed he had been stealing from his fellow pupils.
The killer joined the US Marines in after moving to the country in 1978, but his stay there did not last long.
After he ended up at the Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station in Hawaii, he and three other soldiers raided a weapons depot.
He fled court-martial and moved to Northern California, where he met Lake and they reportedly formed a close bond.
Their relationship hit a bump in 1982 when authorities raided their home to find stored weapons and explosives. Ng, already wanted by the military, was jailed while Lake escaped.
After they were reunited Lake built a bunker due to him being convinced of an impending nuclear disaster, but the pair used it as a dungeon for the sexual torture of victims.
They filmed their victims as they tortured them, with the pair telling one of them: "You can scream like the rest of them but it won’t do you any good."
Along with the 11 confirmed murders, the pair are believed to be connected with the deaths of 25 more people.
The Los Angeles Times reported in 1999 that police had found around 18kg of charred human remains scattered on the property.
Lake killed himself with cyanide after he was arrested in 1985 in a shoplifting incident, causing Ng to flee to Canada.
Despite attempting to lay low, the depraved murderer shot a security guard while trying to rob a store in the country.
He was eventually extradited back to the US in 1991 where he was given the death sentence for his crimes in 1998.
After years of appeals, his prosecution is believed to have cost the State of California a total of £16.4 million.
Only last month the California Supreme Court upheld the decision to execute Ng, though the grim killer may choose to appeal again.
