ĭuring his childhood years, Murdoc attended Sodsworth Comprehensive School where he gained a reputation for his truancy, puerile pranks, ugliness, poor personal hygiene, and generally unruly behavior. His father, Sebastian Jacob Niccals, (or Jacob Sebastian Niccals, depending on who's asking) was a spiteful drunk of a man who often verbally abused and exploited his sons. It has been proposed that his many addictions and his sour attitude were due to his abusive childhood. Murdoc went on to a very abusive childhood. Although the exact whereabouts were never verified, it was rumored that his mother gave birth to him at the Belphegor Sanatorium, a halfway house for 'the sick, the needy, and the incredibly bored.'Īs an infant, he was dumped on the doorstep of his father's house one night and was discovered by him as he was returning home from the pub. Murdoc Alphonse Niccals was born in Stoke-On-Trent on June 6th, 1966.
