Farrow was
hyperactive from a young age, and was sent home from his first day at school. At the age of 10, he set a church altar on fire and watched it burn. He hated his strict father, but loved his mother. As an adult, Farrow was a heavy smoker of
cannabis. In 1994, Farrow was convicted of
aggravated burglary at the home of an elderly woman in
Stourbridge. He told a
forensic psychiatrist that he had fantasies of committing
rape during burglaries. When it was being decided whether he should serve his punishment in prison or in a mental hospital, he told a psychiatrist from
Ashworth Hospital that he had wanted to kill from his teenage years, and had already murdered a backpacker in
Devon six years prior. Although the doctor diagnosed him with antisocial personality disorder, he theorised that Farrow was exaggerating his claims in order to have a safer place of detention than prison. During his trial, Farrow admitted to a burglary in Thornbury around the turn of 2012. He pinned a note to the house's kitchen table, reading, "Be thankful you did not come back or we would have killed you Christian scum. I... hate God". The threat was not personal, as the occupants were not religious. On
New Year's Eve, he texted a friend that, "Church will be the first to suffer". ==Murders==