Madame Tussauds London’s famous Chamber of Horrors returns to the Baker Street attraction this weekend, featuring some of the capital’s most infamous criminals from the last 150 years.

First introduced to British audiences in 1818 while Marie Tussaud toured the UK with her travelling wax exhibition, the return of Chamber of Horrors will again shine a light on some of London’s darkest crime scenes of the past 150 years, including those committed by:

East London gangsters The Kray Twins – identical twin brothers, and the foremost perpetrators of organised crime in the East End of London, from the late 1950s to 1967
Serial killer John Christie, active during the 1940s and early 1950s, who is known to have murdered at least eight people at his home on Rillington Place. Timothy Evans was wrongfully hanged for some of the murders – with the case playing a major part in the removal of capital punishment for murder in 1965
John Haigh, commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer – a serial killer convicted of the murder of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine between 1944-49
Dennis Nilsen, a serial killer who murdered at least 12 young men and boys between 1978 and 1983 in London
Ruth Ellis, hanged in July 1955 for the murder of her abusive lover. She became the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom
Jack the Ripper, a serial killer active in the impoverished districts in and around Whitechapel in the East End of London in 1888
Whilst never officially identified, based on well documented historical theories, Jack the Ripper’s figure will take the form of Aaron Kosminski, a barber originally from Poland who emigrated to England in the 1880s

Whilst the crimes these individuals committed are all very different, each one had a significant impact on social and criminal history, as well as being well documented by the media at the time, and well into the present day.

Tim Waters, General Manager of Madame Tussauds London, said: “Relaunching Chamber of Horrors continues an important legacy first started by Marie Tussaud herself more than 200 years ago.

“In bringing it back, we have remained true to Marie’s original vision of featuring individuals whose different crimes have each had a significant impact on Britain’s social and criminal history.

“Chamber of Horrors returns this October as a chilling reminder of some of the most infamous and darkest crimes in the capital’s history.”