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Synopsis: London Road documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.
Director(s): Rufus Norris
Production: BBC Worldwide North America
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.3
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
76%
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Year:
2015
91 min
1,115 Views


And then when I came up here I thought

"Oh, my word! Am I gonna get parked?"

Cos they've taken

All the spaces along here

Oh, dear

- Yeah, look at this, look at this

- It's horrible, innit, eh?

It's a wicked bloody world

Yeah, look at this, look at this

It's horrible, innit, eh?

It's a wicked bloody world...

I'm just hearing some sirens, actually,

and as he's gonna come

from this direction,

we'll just turn our camera round that way.

So that we do actually see this convoy

when it happens. Turn round this way.

They're obviously on the verge

Of bringing him out

Cos the position the cars are in

The position, the cars, the police

They're all in position, look

They're obviously on the verge

Of bringing him out

Cos the position the cars are in

The position, the cars, the police

They're all in position, look

You look around and you think

"Well, you know"

"Have they got the right...?"

He said

"He's in court this morning, isn't he?"

And then when I came up here

I thought, "Oh, my word!"

- The position of the cars, the police

- ... spaces along here

Hello...

Police motorbikes coming up the road,

not from the direction we were expecting,

so I imagine it's not the convoy.

Hello, they're closing in...

It might be, actually.

They're closing in

He's obviously coming out...

I think it is.

They're closing in

That's why the police

I could see them stopping traffic

Up there an' all

Oh, dear

Yeah, look at this, look at this

It's horrible, innit, eh?

It's a wicked bloody world

It looks like we've got Steven Wright now.

And here we have full convoy near!

Steven Wright!

'48-year-old fork-lift truck driver. '

F***ing bastard!

You piece of sh*t!

You're f***ing dead!

Yeah, look at this, look at this

It's horrible, innit, eh? It's horrible

It's a wicked bloody world

Yeah, look at this, look at this

It's horrible, innit, eh?

It's horrible, innit, eh?

It's a wicked bloody

It's a wicked bloody, it's a wicked bloody

It's a wicked bloody world!

Bloody hell!

Couldn't see. Couldn't see.

- I don't think he was in that van.

- He was.

He's definitely in the back of the van.

- Waste of time, wasn't it?

- It's a disgrace.

Oi. Hey! Get away then!

We're really upset

I just wanted him...

It to be all over

And to know

Were tho... were those prostitutes

Killed in that house?

He was only there for ten weeks

Ten weeks

He was only there for ten weeks

Ten weeks

It's just a chance

The one place in the... in the whole world

Where... he went to live for ten weeks

Could have been anywhere

Could have been next door to you

Could have been next door to you

Everybody would rather it all went away

They must have sleepless nights

I know I do

It was awful. I was very upset.

In the evening, you know,

I'd just close the curtains and erm...

It really made me very depressed and low.

I just feel it's...

- I think there's a...

- It's like a dream still.

I, I don't know.

I don't think I've really...

- I think...

- Really come to accept it.

I... try to... keep going.

Nobody walks...

nobody walks down that road with, with...

And I'm the same.

Without staring at that house.

During the day I had

quite a bit of trouble with children.

Erm, just coming and really looking.

One of them threatened me talking about,

"He's a murderer and everything.

You should move" and...

He was only there for ten weeks

Ten weeks

He was only there for ten weeks

Ten weeks

It's just a chance

The one place

In the... in the whole world where he...

Went to live for ten weeks

Could have been anywhere

Could have been next door to you

Could have been next door to you

Everybody would rather it all went away

They must have sleepless nights

I know I do

When they boarded the house up,

that's when I really didn't like it.

- We were thinking of moving.

- Well, you were, particularly.

It just sort of de-de-depressed me.

It depressed me living next door,

you know,

and I just sort of thought,

"Oh, I wanna be in a nice area. "

I was thinking about moving once,

I was, yeah.

I'm moving. 14th March.

We're really upset

I just wanted him...

It to be all over... and to know

Were tho...

Were those prostitutes

Killed in that house?

They must have sleepless nights

I know I do

- Hello.

- Hello.

Oh, right.

- I've seen you.

- I'm Ron. I live at number 86.

Oh. I'm Julie.

Do you wanna... do you wanna come in?

In October and December of last year

In October and December of last year

In October and December of last year

In October

- In October

- And December of last year

Well, this is the third time

That Steve Wright

Well, this is the third time

That Steve Wright

He arrived here at Ipswich Crown Court

But it's the first time

That he's formally entered a plea

- But it wasn't until two o'clock

- That he stood up

That he stood up

- Dressed in a black suit, white shirt

And blue tie

- White shirt and spoke

- And spoke clearly

- And confidently

And confidently when he was asked

How he would plead

To each of the five counts of murder

They were read out in this order

Well, this is

The third time that Steve Wright

Has appeared in court

But it's the first time

That he's formally entered a plea

But it's the first time

That he's formally entered a plea

He arrived here at Ipswich Crown Court

But it wasn't

Until two o'clock this afternoon

That he stood up dressed in

A blue tie, black suit, white shirt

And spoke clearly and confidently

When he was asked

How he would plead

To each of the five counts of murder

That were read out in this order

Clara Martin

Her body was the second to be found

Although she was the first woman

To go missing

Anna Reynolds

Her body was, was the first to be found

On 3rd December

Emily Collingwood

Whose body was found in Acton

Was found in... in Acton

Sonia Farrell, Michelle Symonds

Their bodies were of course

Found in Levington

Found of course

A few hundred yards apart

Just a few hundred yards from each other

In Levington

We know that all women

Were working in the town as prostitutes

And all their bodies were found naked

To each one of those counts of murder

Steve Wright, er, pleaded

Not guilty

We thought with everything happening

over the Christmas period,

with the prostitutes going missing

and being murdered,

we needed to get together as a community.

We got a lot of bad press

when it was all going on,

saying sort... Lon, London Road was

a prostitute area and so forth like that,

and we just got absolutely cheesed off

with it as a... as a community.

It is, it's, it's not nice being labelled.

So we got together and... and managed

to get a real good committee going.

Good evening, welcome

Good evening, welcome

Good evening, welcome

Good evening, welcome

Welcome, welcome

Good evening, welcome

Good evening

Welcome, welcome

Good evening

This really is our first AGM

Hoping hopefully the problem

With the girls has disappeared

We don't see them now

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Alecky Blythe

Alecky Blythe is a British playwright and screenwriter. She has written several plays, including the acclaimed 2011 musical London Road.Her first play Come Out Eli won a Time Out Award. The Girlfriend Experience premiered at the Royal Court and then transferred to the Young Vic in 2009. Do We Look Like Refugees? won a Fringe First Award at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival. London Road opened at the National Theatre-Cottesloe in 2011 to widespread acclaim. It was named Best Musical at the Critics' Circle Awards and transferred to the National's larger Olivier stage in 2012. Her newest play Have I Been All My Life? opened at the New Vic Theatre in April 2012. In other work, Blythe took part in Headlong Theatre's production of Decade at St Katherine's Docks. She wrote and co-directed a BBC2 documentary on the London riots. She is also working on a film script. Blythe is best known for her pioneering work in verbatim theatre. Her theatre company Recorded Delivery was set up in 2003 to advance this branch of theatre. more…

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