Winnie Johnson

@mrs_teapot wrote:

I find the whole Jackie Powell thing very worrying…. she is a self appointed mental health advocate with no previous experience of mental illness. She isn’t employed by anyone and does the work for no payment….. as far as the prison is concerned she is a visitor and they do not recognise her as a mental health professional.

Seems to me he is controlling this woman possibly just as he did Hindley… it all seems very sinister, I wonder if the letter ever actually existed at all.

i didn’t know that either, and not how it came across in the documentary at all unless i missed a crucial bit in the first 5 minutes, and i agree with panda, if that is the case, yes she should have passed the letter over to the police straight away. She would not be in anyway bound and morally would have been the right thing to do, and i guess legally with holding evidence, the fact she supposedly handed the letter back to him though?? or was there never a letter like you say.
She talked about his illness as if she was a medical professional though, maybe she has issues too, bit odd to class yourself and come across as such if you aren’t, very odd.
I hope the family get some peace and closure though, winnie will now hopefully be with keith, and be able to rest in peace. Shocking the whole thing.

I dunno Ruby… are we all supposed to think he wants to kill himself by starvation? in the meantime whilst ever we consider he is a threat to himself he lives in the comparative luxury of the hospital being fussed about by medical folks….. call me cynical :?