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A Stabbing Tragedy in Manchester

October 6, 2019

A Stabbing Tragedy in Manchester

The Sunday Times Magazine 

October 6, 2019

“They were two sides of the same terrible event, divided by what had happened and yet inextricably bound together. They have never spoken to each other. They all grieved and broke down during our meetings. I felt deeply sorry for every one of them. The case has laid bare the agonising trauma of teenagers with knives. Lives lost and lives changed for ever. It involves three families, three sets of parents who did not know that knives had become part of their children’s world.”

NEWS AND EVENTS

Latest News

  • The Sleep Of Reason – The James Bulger Case by David James Smith:
    Faber Finds edition with new preface, available September 15th, 2011.

  • Young Mandela the movie – in development.

    From The Guardian
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    In the Diary column of The Independent, April 13th, 2011

    More on my previously unsubstantiated claim that the writer-director Peter Kosminsky, creator of The Promise, is working on a drama about Nelson Mandela. I’ve now learnt that the project is a feature film, in development with Film 4, about the young Mandela. Kosminsky is currently at work on the script and, given the complaints about the anti-Jewish bias of The Promise, it is unlikely to be a standard bland portrait of the former South African president.

Latest Review

    New York Times – J. M. Ledgard
  • Nelson Mandela was circumcised as a 16-year-old boy alongside a flowing river in the Eastern Cape. The ceremony was similar to those of other Bantu peoples. An elder moved through the line making ring-like cuts, and foreskins fell away. The boys could not so much as blink; it was a rite of passage that took you beyond pain. read full review

See David James Smith…

Jon Venables: What Went Wrong
BBC 1, 10.35
Thursday, April 21st, 2011