Fury over Suffolk Strangler film
THE FATHER of one of the Suffolk Strangler’s five victims is angered by plans to film a musical about the killings.
London Road, a success at London’s National Theatre, is based on interviews with people who lived and worked on London Road, Ipswich. This is the area where serial killer Steve Wright lived and where his victims, all prostitutes, plied their trade.
BBC Films and Cuba Pictures plan to film it. However, Brian Clennell, 64, whose daughter Paula was one of five women strangled and dumped in fields on the outskirts of Ipswich during a 10-day killing spree in December 2006, said: “It makes me sick that people go and see these things.
“I wish they would let the girls rest in peace and let the families live with the memories they have.”
However, Ron Alder, chairman of London Road Neighbourhood Watch scheme, said: “When the play was first mooted we thought it would never work, we thought it was crackers, but we were proved wrong. I have seen it twice and I thoroughly enjoyed it.”
BBC Films and Cuba Pictures were not available for comment.