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Hi, I'm Declan. I do a classic London walk on Serial Killers.

25 years. 60,000+ people. Unique selling Point? Declan here. I've had over 1000 5-star reviews.

Most such tours in London focus on 'Jack' but I talk about him PLUS 9 MORE in 2 hours. Also, I'm a story-teller, not a dry fact declarer. I researched, wrote and perform this acclaimed, chilling, interactive and illustrated thought-provoking serial killer walk featuring serial killers from London, Britain and Worldwide (not just Jack The Ripper...). I also include criminal profiling exercises, and fun little quizzes for the Group. The tour itself may get creepy and disturbing (how could it be otherwise?), but I myself am friendly and engaging. Come along, you will have a good time!

16/08/2026

Hi everybody,

Airbnb have included ‘Serial killers: The Blood & Tears Walk’ as one of London’s best Experiences!

The people I’ve been dealing with at the company have been great, and Airbnb even paid for a professional photographer to take promotional photos:

https://airbnb.orangelogic.com/Share/u2j7bxn3k38e0rgy5xwiw18886b1k68n?FR_=1&W=1918&H=1050

So, I’m offering a genuinely great deal.

For both the THURSDAY AUGUST 20TH 2026, and the FRIDAY AUGUST 21ST 7-9pm tours, there are ten tickets for sale for only £5 each instead of the normal £20.

That’s 75% off for a tour that ChatGPT says is the best serial killer tour in the world (see photo). That’s the definition of bargain.

Here are the links to the £5 tickets, and please do send the links to people you know who are interested in the subject and can make the timing.

THURSDAY AUGUST 20TH 2026, BARBICAN STATION 7-9Pm - TEN £5 TICKETS AVAILABLE:
https://www.airbnb.co.uk/book/experiences/7084791?availabilityKey=FprijqYBAA%3D%3D&offeringId=QWN0aXZpdHlPZmZlcmluZzo2Mzg4Nzg5&locale=en-GB

FRIDAY AUGUST 21ST 2026, BARBICAN STATION 7-9pm - TEN £5 TICKETS AVAILABLE:
https://www.airbnb.co.uk/book/experiences/7084791?availabilityKey=FqTijqYBAA%3D%3D&offeringId=QWN0aXZpdHlPZmZlcmluZzo2Mzg4Nzg5&locale=en-GB

Once the £5 tickets are gone, they’re gone.

Of course, the normal £20 tickets will still be available for all other dates, but you MUST use the links to get the cheaper £5 price for those two dates.

Why am I offering the special £5 price? Because the tour is newly on Airbnb and needs authentic reviews. Then the algorithm takes notice and the tour rises in the rankings.

Declan

12/06/2026

THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS

I sometimes get people on the tour who have taken the fight to serial killers in some way.

Police investigators, detectives, profilers, etc. I love having them along.

There are too many serial killer fanboys, groupie girls, and edgelords out there, so my motto is: ‘Serial killers, seriously’.

The woman in the photo came on the tour a couple of nights ago and informed me within a minute of our meeting, that Adelaide is, per capita, the serial killer capital of Australia. That’s my type of fact!

Due to her background in forensic psychiatry & years of work in social services protecting abused children, this woman was there when John Bunting was interviewed in Yatala prison, South Australia.

Tiny and possessing dark, empathy-less eyes, Bunting was the driving force behind the horrendous Australian ‘Snowtown’ murders from 1992-1999, in which he and his disciples – he had a cult-like hold over them - sadistically tortured and killed 11 people they believed to be paedophiles, or gay, or just different in some way Bunting did not like.

Oh, and Bunting’s ex-girlfriend was also found dead and buried in his backyard but since it could not be proved she was murdered, she’s not officially one of the victims.

Victims’ bodies were stored in barrels in a disused bank vault, and the case became known as ‘The Bodies in the Barrels murders’.
Incidentally, I’ve also had on my tour, on a different occasion, the man who opened the barrels and made the discovery!

Bunting posed as someone concerned with doling out social justice - UK serial killer Peter Sutcliffe also masqueraded as a social reformer - but when you read the accounts of the sadistic torture and murder sessions Bunting organised, they are both heart-breaking and truly revolting.

Bunting received 11 consecutive life sentences without parole.

My new Australian friend said he’s still very scary even after 22 years in prison, and has almost a malign grip on Yatala. She said that when you are around him, the temperature literally becomes colder, and I don’t doubt it...

25/05/2026

25 years gone...

25/05/2026

The following situation has happened many times and I love it.

When she turned up with a bunch of other people this week, a woman from the USA told me she’d been on my serial killer tour ten years ago.

Her ‘Criminology and Drama’ class were over from the USA for a few days, and their teacher was looking for a suitable London walking tour to go on that would tie in with those studies.

Rachel looked me up, saw I was still doing the tour, and told the teacher “I know the tour to do”.

As a result of that recommendation, based on her first experience of the tour ten years ago, Rachel’s entire class of 17 came along last week.

I love this kind of ‘word-of-mouth’ karma.

I guide a tour to the best of my ability, a seed is planted in someone’s memory, and a decade later I reap further rewards.

02/05/2026

Well, well, well. Guess who came along on the tour last night!

Lauren Laverne on the right of me in the photo.

Presenter of ‘Desert Island Discs’, Radio 6 presenter, former pop star (‘Kenickie’), author, columnist, and a lot more besides.

Lauren is very calm, pleasant, and a very good listener (being presenter of ‘Desert Island Discs’ helps hone that skill, I’m sure!).

From references she made last night, she's also clearly knowledgeable about the sort of material I deal with on the tour.

On the immediate left of me in the photo: Caitlin Moran. Columnist extraordinaire, presenter, novelist, series writer and, like Lauren, much, much more.

Caitlin is instantly recognisable and a force of nature!

I’ve liked her attitude, expressed in articles and books like ‘How to be a Woman’ and ‘What about Men’, for years.

She's feisty, smart, funny and relatable.

It was fantastic that they came along!

(Apologies that I don't know their friends).

22/04/2026

This is quite a moment for me – my 1,000th 5-star review on TripAdvisor for my serial killer tour!

That’s a lot of wandering between Barbican and Holborn stations over the years! I like to joke that civilisations come and go, but the tour goes on forever…

The 1000th 5-star review ties in nicely with the very nearly 10,000 copies so far sold of my ‘Bloody London’ book.

https://bit.ly/3QdE8nJ

So, what have I learnt about the many thousands of people who have come on the tour to date? That they are genuinely very nice people, very far from being the wild-eyed, cruel-hearted types some might assume like this material.

They are people interested in what makes serial killers tick (as am I), and the vast majority are women. As one woman put it: “Your tour is like a self-defence class for women’. That’s a huge compliment - and not a bad legacy.

The very first TripAdvisor 5-star review, back in 2009, said “…it was amazing! was definitely the best "tourist" activity which I have ever done…Declan was fantastic. Couldn't fault it”.

The most recent 5-star review said “…Declan knows so much…he knows how to get everyone engaged in the whole experience until the very end of the tour, it’s so entertaining that one can barely notice that one has been walking for 2 hours!”

I’m giving a link here to the tour on GetYourGuide because I’d like more bookings and reviews on that site too….
https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-10-serial-killers-in-one-chilling-immersive-tour-t735109/?ranking_uuid=d4934039-d1f3-481c-850a-55f496ddcdbc

Thanks to all past and future attendees. You are greatly appreciated.

Declan

12/04/2026

9,787 copies of my 'Bloody London' book sold so far. ☺️

13/12/2025

A funny quote from the Serial Killer tour last night.

One of the people on the Tour, a Dad in a family of 4, said as we were walking down to where I start the tour: “I’ve told them that if the first thing you say is “Have you told anyone you’re here?”, we’re leaving”.

I then told the group about the time that only one person turned up.

I'm a professional and I put the same effort in whether it's 1 person or 84 people (the biggest number I've had on the Tour).

So I did the entire Tour just for this one student - macabre, immersive true crime stories about serial killers, in deserted grim and creepy alleys - and at the end he wrote with a slightly shaky hand in my visitor’s book:

“Thank you for not killing me”.

And he meant it!

03/11/2025

Possibly as a result of the 5-star reviews for my Halloween night tour, I've shot up into the top 8 results, out of over 1000 results, for London Walking Tours on Viator.

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