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Article: We never really gave a damn. These murders missed our collective G-spot. No loss of innocence or beauty; BRIAN READE ON PEOPLE WHO SEE SHIPMAN AS A MERCY-KILLER.(News)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 20, 2002
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Byline: BRIAN READE
THE first time I clapped eyes on Harold Shipman he looked the quiet, unassuming type who wins the pub quiz because he knows the Latin name of every rare plant.
Behind him, on the opening day of his Preston crown court trial, sat his devoted, matronly wife Primrose, who I guessed got the halves of bitter in and ticked the answers down the Royal Oak every Monday night.
A normal, respectable, dedicated, professional middle-class couple with four well-turned out, well-adjusted kids. And him a doctor of 25 years standing.
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