Handwriting

specimen

This is the handwriting of Steve Wright, the Suffolk serial rapist.   He was imprisoned recently for murdering five women.

The slow, cautious movement here is revealed by the disconnected letters, strokes which curl back to the left, wide word spacing and uneven pressure.  This man needs time and space to think before he acts.  Poor rhythm shows his lack of integration. 

There are unfortunate hooks and compressed structures (notice particularly his ws and the significant word Childhood which he gives a capital C and separates into two words).  Distorted and over inflated es suggest his willingness to violate other people's rights.  He will flirt and charm others by appearing to be interested in them but all the time he is planning, analysing, calculating (upright slant and sharp angular strokes - ns, ms and hs particularly).  He explores every avenue before acting. 

Many features immediately strike the eye.  The general impression is of repressed anger and frustration with angles and hooks and uneven pressure.  His fs are formed with extra pressure and start below the baseline, moving upwards against the grain.  So his planning strategies are rooted in the area of instincts, physicality, material needs as he prepares to get what he wants.