London Road Page #6

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%
TV-14
Year:
2015
91 min
1,188 Views


And the girls who took it

A lot of them are doing really well

And, you know

This has been a year later now

And yeah

We're coming about three times

And what with other organisations

And stuff, you know

There has been the help there, you know

With other organisations

And stuff, you know

- There has been the help there

- We've all stopped

We've all stopped now

An' it, an' it has been

Because of the murders

That's why, like, we've all stopped

I've got...

Well, saying that, I've got regulars

- We've got regulars

- That phone and we see

You know, won't work the street

But we've got a few regulars

That keep us going

You know, won't work the street

But we've got a few regulars

That keep us going

And just do, like, instead of

Hundreds of pounds' worth of drugs a day

Now all I do is, like

15 worth of drugs a day now

- If that

- I don't use it every day any more

Maybe occasionally now I still use

I'm still trying

To get over that hurdle but...

It's just that last little bit

You gotta get off, yeah

To what I was a year ago

Like, there is such a change

I never thought I'd get back

To what, where I am now

I really didn't

Like, I've never been this big before

Either I was, like, a size f***ing six

I know, I've put on weight

I was like a size six

We've all put on weight, yeah

We wasn't...

It took all that for anyone

To start helping us

- Yeah, that's what's upsetting

- Yeah, that's what's upsetting

Yeah, yeah, that's what's upsetting

Yeah

It took those... took five girls

That's what makes me feel

I wanna get clean for 'em

Because he's took their lives

Has took their lives

For them to help us

Come on

Let's get these girls off the street

Come on

Let's get these girls off the street

'All parties in the case

of Ronnie Tretton, Court Four. '

Hm...

They're doing this now

just to tease us, aren't they?

'All parties in the case

of David Hughes, Court Two. '

There's that momentary pause

every time that goes off. It's awful.

As soon as that verdict's in,

it's gonna be absolute mayhem.

- What's happening?

- Don't know. Everyone's going

This could be the verdict

Could be the verdict

Could be the verdict

Could be the verdict

Hello, Victoria

They think it might be a verdict

And the digilink's gone down

I've told the desk

OK. Good luck. Bye

Broke

They think it might be a verdict

Could you give level again

Please, Colette?

And the digilink's gone down

I've told the desk

- The jury of nine men

- Could you give level again, please?

The jury of nine men

and three women started

The digilink's gone down

Deliberating

I've told the desk

And the digilink's gone down

The jury of nine men

Could you give level again?

Could you give level again, please?

Hey

We're not on the satellite

Hey, hey

We're not on the satellite

Hey, hey, hey

Hello, Victoria

What day is it? Thursday?

They went out...

They went out Tuesday, didn't they?

They think it might be a verdict

And the digilink's gone down

We think there might be a verdict

And the digilink's gone down...

- 'Suffolk Today... '

- Ron! Ron! It's the verdict!

Verdict! It's the verdict!

It was... it stretched over

That, er, remarkable

Six

Six-and-a-half weeks back in 2006

And over ten days

Four

Now it seem...

He did say that he had sex

With four of those women

- One

- Can you come to me?

- Guilty

- Can you come to me?

Now we hear it's guilty on count one

- That's Clara Martin

- Can you come to me?

Clara was the first to go missing

That was October 30th

Or maybe even the early hours

Of the 31st

- Two

- Can you come to me?

- Guilty

- We are getting the verdict

He was caught on an automatic

Number plate recognition camera

- Two

- He's guilty of killing Anna Reynolds

- So that's two guilty verdicts so far

- He is accused of five counts of murder

- We know he's guilty of the murder...

- Three, guilty

Again, he's been found guilty

Of the murder of Emily Collingwood

The jury of nine men and three women

Spent six-and-a-half hours

Deliberating this verdict

- They went out just after midday

- Two more counts to go

- Er, to consider the verdict

- Two more counts to go

- Should all agree on a verdict

- Four, guilty

Four guilty, I'm told now

That Michelle Symonds has also been...

He's also guilty

Of killing Michelle Symonds

We only have to hear the fifth count now

- We only have to hear the fifth count

- We only have to hear...

Members of the jury

Will be telling the court now

- She was found very, very close

- Perhaps only...

Members of the jury will be telling...

- A hundred or so yards apart

- The fifth count now we have to hear

The jury will be...

Members of the jury

Will be telling the court now

Guilty, now he's been found guilty

Now he's been found guilty

On all five counts of murder

Guilty, Steve Wright guilty

Of all five counts of murder

Of all five charges of murder

Steve Wright has been found guilty

On all charges

He's been found guilty

Guilty of killing Emily Collingwood

Guilty of killing Michelle Symonds

For one of the most

Disgusting serial killings

In British history

- Of all five charges

- Guilty, Steve Wright guilty

Of all five counts of murder

Guilty on all five counts of murder

Steve Wright, a man

A very unremarkable man

On the surface of things

A man who has been responsible now

We know

For one of the most disgusting

Serial killings

In British history

We're still awaiting news

On Steve Wright's sentencing

It's thought Mr Justice Gross will

Pass that first thing tomorrow morning

This is Kelly McCormack

Outside Ipswich Crown Court

For Classic FM

OK. OK. OK. Bye.

I'm staying connected. I'll keep

my headphones on too. Ooo-oo-oo!

Oo-oo-ooh!

Ooh.

I've got nearly 17 hanging baskets

In this back garden

Believe it or not

Begonias and petunias

And, erm, impatiens and things

Marigolds, petunias and we got up there

We got busy Lizzies

Hanging geraniums, all right, see

There's all sorts in that basket anyway

Hanging lobelias

Petunias in a basket

Hanging basket

That's a fuchsia

Erm, there is a special name

I just call 'em lilies

They're a lily type

There is a special name

And for the first time this year

I've got a couple of, erm... baskets

Begonias and petunias

And, erm, impatiens and things

Marigolds, petunias

- Petunias

- We got busy Lizzies

- And, erm, impatiens and things

- Hanging lobelias

Hanging baskets

Variegated ivy in there

Which makes a nice show

And then you've got

These sky-blue... whatever they are

Vm-veer-veer-la-la

That's the little purple ones

Rhubarb

The old-fashioned marguerites

The daisies

The roses have done

Really well this year

Yeah

Gave us an extra point for having basil

On the windowsill, didn't she?

Yeah

- Hanging baskets

- Rhubarb

- Variegated ivy in there

- The old-fashioned marguerites

- Which makes a nice show

- The roses

- And then you've got...

- Have done really well this year, yeah

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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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