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Police fear the so-called Croydon Cat Killer is likely to have "fantasies about killing or raping humans" and believe they are likely to have a very strong connection to Addiscombe, given how many attacks there have been there.

The police investigation into the Croydon Cat Killer was shown on BBC One documentary "The Met: Policing London" tonight (Wednesday, June 14).

A human is believed to have killed, dismembered and decapitated more than 250 cats since the first pet was found dead in Croydon in 2015,

Detective Sergeant Andy Collin, who is leading the investigation, said during the programme that it is "without doubt the strangest case" he has ever dealt with.

DS Collin was filmed in a park in Addiscombe which is the centre of the investigation due to the number of cats which have been found killed in the area. Bodies were left in front gardens and patches of grass where they would be easily found and they had been laid out rather than dumped by another animal.

During the show Pippa Gregory, a profiling expert from the National Crime Agency, said: "[This is] not your average animal abuse, you get plenty of animal abuse….it is the post-mortem mutilation and the need to deposit [the bodies] which is particularly interesting.

"We don't know many of these individuals, because they are often not found, those that we do know about have been found to have really quite dark and deviant sexual fantasies.

"That is not to say they are doing this to make up for sexual fantasies but it certainly seems to be that they are getting gratification from the offences and the mutilation of the cats. But they also have within them fantasies about mutilating, or offending, or killing, or raping humans as well.

"You offender is getting gratification from what he is doing and it is a question of how long is it going to last.

"That is where the danger comes."

During the episode police searched the home of a rapist who raped an elderly woman in Croydon as part of the investigation into the Croydon cat killer.

DS Collin said it was "quite impressive" that the Croydon Cat Killer had never been caught on CCTV and that there was "planning and thought involved" in the attacks.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police told the Advertiser last year that officers were "convinced" the cats are being killed by a human, then mutilated.

Police, who have invested more than 1,200 hours in the case so far.

With the majority of the cats' bodied being found in and around Croydon the person responsible has been dubbed the "Croydon Cat Killer".

A £10,000 reward if being offered by animal rights charity PETA and Outpaced for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect.