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Post by marion on Dec 22, 2016 12:56:14 GMT
I thought it was quite good but not very enthralling. The,portrayal of Mr Muncie I liked, played as a thoroughly decent man persevering. I didn't really get much insight into Manuel though. So overall I found it a bit flat, but I had never heard of the case so the story itself was interesting.
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Post by bidiein on Dec 23, 2016 17:49:44 GMT
One of my bosses in the court service was a young trainee when the Manuel case was heard. He well remembered seeing the accused brought up from the cells below the High Court day after day during the trial. It is a notorious case up here in Scotland and Manuel's actions were never really explained. He seems to have killed just because he COULD. His victims were random - men, women and children.
Yet he fed the cat that belonged to the family he butchered.....
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Post by marion on Dec 23, 2016 21:03:55 GMT
Oh that is interesting. I was thinking it was a fault of the programme but it seems they would have had to make it up if they wanted to give us some "insight".
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2016 21:25:08 GMT
One of my bosses in the court service was a young trainee when the Manuel case was heard. He well remembered seeing the accused brought up from the cells below the High Court day after day during the trial. It is a notorious case up here in Scotland and Manuel's actions were never really explained. He seems to have killed just because he COULD. His victims were random - men, women and children. Yet he fed the cat that belonged to the family he butchered..... He had been in and out of the system from a teenager. Approved school, then borstal, and finally prison, graduating through each level, and becoming nastier and nastier at each level. He seems to have had no moral compass. |
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Post by Netz on Jun 17, 2021 20:22:35 GMT
I've just binge-watched the recent repeat of this, as I missed it the first time around. Quite shocking that Manuel's father enabled his son to kill more people because he was providing him with alibis. The nurse sister had qualms about receiving a stolen Christmas present from her brother, but still gave him an alibi when he'd been out killing the night before. Very impressed by Muncie's record of solving every one of the 50 murders brought before him in his 40-year career.
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Anymore to come?
