Murder on the Common: The Secret Story of the Murder That Shocked a Nation (Blake's True Crime Library)

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After intense media and political pressure, the prosecution of Colin Stagg, the prime suspect, was suddenly at the top of the CPS sensitive case list passed to the attorney general. They asked Prof Britton, who worked on a string of other high-profile cases including the Fred and Rose West killings and the murder of James Bulger, to draw up an offender profile. He said: “If he apologised, I think I’d be able to shake his hand, forgive him and finally put it behind me, once and for all.

I think in our story Pedder puts Britton on a pedestal and thinks he’s a genius in part out of necessity, because he needs to share the load with someone. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal.Of course, the book was written before the actual killer was convicted, so there is no mention of this. The operation, he wrote, was designed to lead to the "implication or elimination" of Stagg as the prime suspect. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The decision ended an 18-month ordeal for Mr Pedder, and is a serious embarrassment to the Metropolitan police, its commissioner, Sir Paul Condon, and to his high profile anti-corruption crusade run by the secretive Complaints Investigation Bureau (CIB), dubbed the Untouchables. My first two or three days were 30 pages of dialogue – the two big interview scenes between Keith and Colin, so I spent weeks learning them, and the process of filming for those two scenes in their entirety before anyone says cut was incredibly rewarding.

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DC Blackman was instructed by CIB to insist on a meeting with Mr Pedder and told to pass him the microfiche.