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The Rumour by Lesley Kara
‘I STILL REMEMBER THE BLOOD,’ SAYS CHILD KILLER SALLY MCGOWAN’S FORMER FRIEND AND NEIGHBOUR MARGARET COLE.'
By Geoff Binns
Tuesday, 3 August 1999
Daily Mail
Thirty years ago today, Sally McGowan became notorious for stabbing five-year-old Robbie Harris to death in a derelict house in Broughton, Salford. She was ten years old.
There's a rumour spreading saying that a child killer, Sally McGowan, has moved to a small town where our main character; Joanna lives. Jo was abandon from her father at a very young age and she is uncertain about almost everything in her life especially in interpersonal relationships. She's been having a ‘friends with benefits’ relationship with a guy who is also the father of her child. Her child has difficulties in school and doesn't have too many friends. In order her child to have friends, she thinks that it is a good idea to join a mothers club at her son's school, so when mothers become friends, so will the kids. So, when one day when someone tells her a rumour about a child killer moving to their town, she sees it as an opportunity to be heard. She unintentionally is the one to spread the rumour to other mothers.
Although she doesn't seem to have done it intentionally, there are consequences. Getting indirect threats via twitter and someone following her are just a few.
And this is when a rumour starts to become a big deal.
Here's another thing; her ''partner'' wants to write a book about this particular person and this is where things tangle up.
The thrill of having a criminal in their town raises heads from curiosity about who might be that woman. The main target is Anna, a candle shop owner who's been living in town for years.
Some take the investigation about her too seriously, going to such depths as to put posters and making false accusations, but as we get deeper and approach the truth, it is quite an unexpected turn of events.
The series of investigation, through Joanna's and the serial killer's pov as well, bring us a conclusion to who that person is. How and by who it has been done...are not as important questions as why or what was the reason behind it. The motive. The past. The things underlying this whole rumour.
Rumours can kill
By Geoff Binns
Tuesday, 3 August 1999
Daily Mail
Thirty years ago today, Sally McGowan became notorious for stabbing five-year-old Robbie Harris to death in a derelict house in Broughton, Salford. She was ten years old.
There's a rumour spreading saying that a child killer, Sally McGowan, has moved to a small town where our main character; Joanna lives. Jo was abandon from her father at a very young age and she is uncertain about almost everything in her life especially in interpersonal relationships. She's been having a ‘friends with benefits’ relationship with a guy who is also the father of her child. Her child has difficulties in school and doesn't have too many friends. In order her child to have friends, she thinks that it is a good idea to join a mothers club at her son's school, so when mothers become friends, so will the kids. So, when one day when someone tells her a rumour about a child killer moving to their town, she sees it as an opportunity to be heard. She unintentionally is the one to spread the rumour to other mothers.
Although she doesn't seem to have done it intentionally, there are consequences. Getting indirect threats via twitter and someone following her are just a few.
And this is when a rumour starts to become a big deal.
Here's another thing; her ''partner'' wants to write a book about this particular person and this is where things tangle up.
The thrill of having a criminal in their town raises heads from curiosity about who might be that woman. The main target is Anna, a candle shop owner who's been living in town for years.
Some take the investigation about her too seriously, going to such depths as to put posters and making false accusations, but as we get deeper and approach the truth, it is quite an unexpected turn of events.
The series of investigation, through Joanna's and the serial killer's pov as well, bring us a conclusion to who that person is. How and by who it has been done...are not as important questions as why or what was the reason behind it. The motive. The past. The things underlying this whole rumour.
Rumours can kill