HOLLYWOOD star Tom Cruise was one of the targets of a serial killer who operated in London in the early 1990s.

British serial killer Colin Ireland killed five gay men in a three month killing spree in London’s Earls Court in 1993.

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Whatsapp There had been rumours for ages that all was not well in Tom and Katies marriage of five years. Nonetheless, when their split was announced it still came as somewhat of a surprise. The bets are on as to who Toms next wife might be.

Now newly unearthed police files reveal that Ireland was also targeting the Hollywood star after seeing him in a London bar.

52-year-old Cruise has been married three times - and is still regularly linked with some of Hollywood’s most attractive women.

It is believed Ireland began to target Cruise under the false assumption the star was gay.

He was arrested in relation to five other murders before he could carry out his plans on the actor.

Ireland would pose as a patron in gay bars who was into sadomasochism, before persuading men to take him home with them.

He would then strangle them when they were bound.

He pleaded guilty to five murders and was jailed for five life sentences.

Ireland died in prison in 2012 at the age of 57.

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