Piers Morgan on most 'draining' Serial Killer interview yet

What makes a serial killer? Piers Morgan is setting out to find out just that in his latest documentary Confessions of a Serial Killer when he comes face-to-face with a murderer who not only admits his heinous crimes but is willing to explore what in his psyche compelled him to commit cold-blooded murder.

Piers started his chat with Phillip and Holly by stealing TM's most recent National Television Award, claiming we ‘robbed him of an NTA’. Snatching the award from display, Piers said, “I am reclaiming it for Good Morning Britain! This was stolen property!”

Holly replied, “Well, if it makes you feel better that you have to steal one rather than win one, you can have it…” Leaving Piers to finally admit, “Do you know what, congratulations! I’m a bad loser, I hate losing, what can I say?”

Piers later went on to reveal how his most recent interview with Bernard Giles for Confessions of a Serial Killer series was his toughest and left him ‘emotionally drained’. He said, “It was very chilling. He was happily married with a young baby daughter and suddenly he decided to go on this rampage of killing five women in three months… and he was the one that when I went back to my hotel room, I shut the door, I sat down, I poured myself drink and I really did sit there for quite a while feeling emotionally drained actually.”

He added, “He spoke at if it was all quite normal stuff, but for me and others watching, you’ll be horror struck of the appalling amount of damage he caused to people. I’ve interviewed a lot of dangerous people but this guy, he was almost like Hannibal Lecter - highly intelligent, and able to be perfectly charming on a certain level - but by the end of it I really felt I’d been in the presence of an exceptionally dangerous and twisted person. I don’t think people like him ever get rehabilitated.”

Confessions of a Serial Killer with Piers Morgan is on ITV, Thursday at 9pm