My first inklings of the story which would become Ordinary Human Failings were from a non-fiction book by the great Scottish writer Gordon Burn. In his definitive account of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, he mentions in passing that a tabloid newspaper had approached members of Sutcliffe’s family and offered to put them up in a hotel in exchange for money and alcohol (some of them being dependent on the substance). Now, I haven’t gone back to check this detail …
Category: Migrant Crisis
As a journalist, sometimes you find a story and sometimes one comes to you. The latter was what I experienced in August 2018, when I was first contacted through Facebook …
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