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Drivel wrote:yes , I too found the 2nd part a let down – and can’t work out why either[/qu
ote]cant comment on it as i couldent bring myself to watch it
Well I enjoyed last night’s Part 2 as much as Part 1. I think that because we by then knew who had done what (in the terms of the ‘story’ ). It was really a matter of watching the legal process take its course. Maybe that was why the tone and flavour of Part 2 was not quite as enthralling as Part 1, but still as compulsive in an awful sort of way.
It was unbearably sad watching the unrewarded efforts of the Police to unravel the dreadful things that were done and to try to bring some peace to the poor parents who had their children ripped from their homes and coldly and callously murdered.
Just imagine how awful it must be for a parent to know that their child has been horrifically murdered all those years ago – and yet never to be quite sure. Always wondering if they are really really dead. Totally heartrending.
I thought that the acting was superb, and the portrayal of Myra Hindley was absolutely outstanding. She really conveyed that awful blank-eyed stare with utterly no compassion in it at all. And she was portrayed as an extremely manipulative person – which is exactly what she was – with no real remorse about her whatsoever.
I remember at the time (and for many years afterwards) Lord Longford (Paddy Packenham) campaigning endlessley to have her released on parole and claiming that she was ‘largely innocent’ of the crimes of which she was accused, tried, and convicted.
He believed the tissue of lies and half truths that she told him, and many others. A really dangerous woman indeed. 36 years in jail seems about right to me – 36 long long years of incarceration followed by her death and unmarked cremation.
I hope they didn’t spend any money on a coffin for her – just chucked her corpse into the oven and set fire to it.
We don’t hear much about Ian Brady though do we??? Strange that eh?
Last i heard he was still on hunger strike in a hospital prison. And he has wrote to Keith Bennetts mother with patheticness oozing out of his letter! He is pathetic let him starve himself to death no one cares.
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