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Source: guardian.co.uk Society

Nov 09, 2009

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Channel 4 screens a drama about the hanging of Paul Gadd tonight, but we learn more from trying to understand criminals than from killing them

Channel 4 stages a televisual hanging tonight in The Execution of Gary Glitter. Here, a lawyer who has represented paedophiles explains why it is better to seek understanding.

One of my heroines is Lorilei Guillory. Her six-year-old child Jeremy was killed by my client, Ricky Langley, in south-west Louisiana in 1992.

A year before Ricky was born, his father, drunk, drove the family car into a bridge. Two children were instantly killed. One was the six-year-old Oscar Lee. The mother, Bessie, spent most of the next two years in hospital, much of the time in a full-length bodycast. This was when Ricky was conceived. Nobody believed Bessie was pregnant for more than five months. She continued to be prescribed a pharmacy full of drugs, and the unborn Ricky suffered his own private Hiroshima from all the x-rays. When they finally cut the cast open, there was a "whooosh". The doctors urged an abortion; the husband, rigorously Ca

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