Code of a Killer - Colin Pitchfork

[Rincewind]

Went in the Clarendon before work for a lemonade when I did security. 3-3. Also isn't there a bakery shop on Queens Road that was mentioned? A few years after though.

[MPH]

 

There are camel trains in deserts.A passing tribe would give him a lift back to a city where he could sneak back into Britain unaware because it would be thought that he had perished in the desert and lying under six feet of sand.

 

And using the passport of a dead person is that easy?

[Guest Col city fan]

...yes and the Clarendon Pub in West Street was mentioned as the place the guy blabbed about his taking the blood test for Pitchfork. That Pub is quite close to Wyggeston / Uni being behind the Queens Road (where I used to get my lunch time chips). Didn't drink in the Clarendon whilst at 6th form though as tended to go to the Old Horse otherside of Vicky Park.

It is mate. One of my old drinking haunts, along with the Old Horse.

[ScouseFox]

wow i've bevvied in the clarendon before, never knew i was so close to meeting col what a day that would've been! 

 

edit - col as in col city fan, not colin pitchfork, that would've been a totally different kinda day 

[Guest Col city fan]

wow i've bevvied in the clarendon before, never knew i was so close to meeting col what a day that would've been!

edit - col as in col city fan, not colin pitchfork, that would've been a totally different kinda day

I'd have bought you a pint Scouse I'm old buddy. I'm that kinda guy.

Yeah..the Clarendon was our usual fri night watering hole, along with that pub at the far end of Queens Road.. Who's name escapes me.

Edit...no it don't...'The Cradock'

[ScouseFox]

I'd have bought you a pint Scouse I'm old buddy. I'm that kinda guy.

Yeah..the Clarendon was our usual fri night watering hole, along with that pub at the far end of Queens Road.. Who's name escapes me.

Edit...no it don't...'The Cradock'

Wahey I drink in the cradock after every home game! We've got so much in common col

[Guest Col city fan]

Wahey I drink in the cradock after every home game! We've got so much in common col

[Guest WarehamFox]

Wasn't that Paul Brittain?

I think so...I've met him and he was fascinating to listen to.

'The Blooding' was written by Joseph Wambaugh. It's brill but slightly disturbing!

[Guest Col city fan]

'The Blooding' was written by Joseph Wambaugh. It's brill but slightly disturbing!

Ah..my bad.

[Soar Fox]

Served his time, if he is released I'll have a pint in the old inn with him.

[ScouseFox]

you been in the cradock recently col? it was great back in the day according to my old man, then went rubbish about 10 years back but it's thriving again now. we only usually go because it's not far from my dads and they let his dog in (not his wife ) but I enjoy it in there. usually play darts vs the old fella (and lose). old skool pub.

[Rincewind]

Is it still Everards?

[Guest Col city fan]

you been in the cradock recently col? it was great back in the day according to my old man, then went rubbish about 10 years back but it's thriving again now. we only usually go because it's not far from my dads and they let his dog in (not his wife ) but I enjoy it in there. usually play darts vs the old fella (and lose). old skool pub.

Not been in for ages mate.

It used to be the final stop on our Friday night pub crawl, going back many years.

The Bobby Peel is our meeting place after games at the mo.

[Guest MattP]

Finished this today, thought it was excellent television.

 

Main thoughts lie with the families of the two girls, I can't imagine how horrific it must have been not only to lose two close members in that fashion but also to have to wait for years to bring the person to justice who did it, my thoughts remain with them now given they will already be going through this again with his parole hearing coming up, they must feel like life isn;t worth living.

 

There is nothing remotely civilised or 'progressive' about allowing people like Colin Pitchfork back into society.

[Guest Col city fan]

Finished this today, thought it was excellent television.

Main thoughts lie with the families of the two girls, I can't imagine how horrific it must have been not only to lose two close members in that fashion but also to have to wait for years to bring the person to justice who did it, my thoughts remain with them now given they will already be going through this again with his parole hearing coming up, they must feel like life isn;t worth living.

There is nothing remotely civilised or 'progressive' about allowing people like Colin Pitchfork back into society.

This, this and this again.

God help us if some Human Rights lawyer gets involved and he gets released.

[theadmans]

I'd have bought you a pint Scouse I'm old buddy. I'm that kinda guy.

Yeah..the Clarendon was our usual fri night watering hole, along with that pub at the far end of Queens Road.. Who's name escapes me.

Edit...no it don't...'The Cradock'

 

...Bit Off Topic but bear with me - I used to go to the Cradock pretty regular also when I was at Lanky boys and 6th Form. Certainly made it for  New Years Eve every year. I have been living away from Leicester now for the last 25 odd years. Anway I was catching up on the US Master on the BBC website the other day and I saw a name Iain Carter and I realised that this was a guy I used to sit with down the Cradock (we both were in the same scout pack and both went to Lanky boys). Anyway this Iain Carter is now the BBCs main golf correspondent. Iain was always pretty knowledgeable about sport but I don't remember him playing golf (me and my mate Nick where the golfers in the group). Iain has certainly done well for himself :-

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/correspondents/iaincarter

[Guest Col city fan]

...Bit Off Topic but bear with me - I used to go to the Cradock pretty regular also when I was at Lanky boys and 6th Form. Certainly made it for New Years Eve every year. I have been living away from Leicester now for the last 25 odd years. Anway I was catching up on the US Master on the BBC website the other day and I saw a name Iain Carter and I realised that this was a guy I used to sit with down the Cradock (we both were in the same scout pack and both went to Lanky boys). Anyway this Iain Carter is now the BBCs main golf correspondent. Iain was always pretty knowledgeable about sport but I don't remember him playing golf (me and my mate Nick where the golfers in the group). Iain has certainly done well for himself :-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/correspondents/iaincarter

Cool story man.. What year were you?

[theadmans]

Cool story man.. What year were you?

 

 

...I am 48 now - was 16 in 1983 when I did my O Levels at Lanky boys and then went onto Wyggy for the A Levels. Looking at Iain's online BBC biography makes me think he would be an ideal replacement for Stringer ! Iain's a City fan and from what a I remember a pretty sound bloke - mind you Radio Leicester is a bit of a step down from 5 Live etc.

[Babylon]

I'm not the only one that got lost there then.

 

I thought he'd been posting his poetry in random threads!

[Footballwipe]

Reading around a few found it quite drab, but In was captivated with it being a local crime. It also bought back memories of my dad telling me about it when I was a kid. Asked my mum to confirm and it turns our he was visited by the police when they were carrying out their investigations because someone had reported he'd done a runner.

 

Rather than doing a runner, he'd just moved to Braunstone to live with my mum in the meantime! The copper who visited him remembered him from the cycling proficiency test he gave him when only a litt'lun!

 

I can't imagine how horrible it must have felt back then in those villages. As a young girl, as a parent, as a resident. Awful.

 

If it was true in the show by the way, amazing to think that the Thatcher's saved the programme from being canned caused of cost, and how amazing that stroke of luck was with the man blabbing about doing it for someone else. Anyone know what happened to that chap? Did he end up leaving the area or was he quietly forgotton about over time?

[notnow john]

I thought the programme was superb, sensitively made and brilliantly acted.

But spare a thought for the actor playing Pitchfork,his agent rings to tell him he's got

the part playing Pitchfork in a television drama.

It's starring John Simms playing the scientist,David Trelfall playing the cop and they want HIM

to play the murderer.

He spends weeks researching psychopathic serial killers and finally he's nailed it,

only to find out his car air freshener has a bigger part!!

(I used t have one just like it)

[Guest Col city fan]

...I am 48 now - was 16 in 1983 when I did my O Levels at Lanky boys and then went onto Wyggy for the A Levels. Looking at Iain's online BBC biography makes me think he would be an ideal replacement for Stringer ! Iain's a City fan and from what a I remember a pretty sound bloke - mind you Radio Leicester is a bit of a step down from 5 Live etc.

Couple of years above me..half my best mates went Lanky boys. You'd prob know them.

[Strokes]

I grew up in narborough, although very young I have strong memories of the second murder and the hysteria it caused.

It was I guess, a frightening time but I was unaffected as I didn't really know much different, it was only as I had got older, that the enormity of it dawned. Right up to the age of sixteen my parents forbidden me to use the black pad and ten pound lane on my own, and my sisters were chaperoned everywhere (and still are, lazy fecks).

It's still felt by people who live/lived in the village now, so how it felt for the parents I can't even begin to imagine, I hope the monster doesn't get out.

[DB11]

Couple of years above me..half my best mates went Lanky boys. You'd prob know them.

 

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[Bettsj2]

Watched this yesterday. Knew nothing about this case but my wife lived in Narborough at the time and her sister knew both girls killed.

Amazed that the advances in DNA were founded in Leicester!

Got to say that Pitchfork cannot be released. If you kill once in circumstances that are understandable (crime of passion etc) then release I can understand. This bloke however is a serial killer and would have killed again and again if he didnt get caught. He should never get out.