1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Listeners should be born that this episode of Life and 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: Crimes contains graphic imagery and language, and there is no 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: doubt that the story we tell today is extremely disturbing, 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: which it has to be. He was an unidentified intruder 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 1: who preyed on women home alone, after studying their movements 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: the way a crocodile watches and waits for prey. Born 7 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: to a violent alcoholic father and a frightened mother, trapped 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: by poverty to a life of family violence, His origin 9 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: raises the question of whether he was born bad or 10 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: made that way? Was it nature or nurture, a question 11 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: we've asked many times in these podcasts. I'm Andrew Rule. 12 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 1: This is Life in Crimes. It's thirty years since a 13 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: prison officer took hold of a convicted rapist and led 14 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: him out and put him in a van and took 15 00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: him off to prison, where he has remained until this day. 16 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: That man's name was Christopher Clarence Hall, but he was 17 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: known for many months as the Ascot Veil rapist, the 18 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: sex attacker who terrorized Melbourne for nine long months in 19 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two and nineteen ninety three, And as it 20 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: turns out, he was a man who had raped other 21 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: people even before that. I'm now going to read a short, 22 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: sharp story that sums up the life and crimes of 23 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: Christopher Clarence Hall, who might soon walk amongst us again. 24 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: This is a version of the story I wrote for 25 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: the Sunday Herald Sun. It was a big day for 26 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,559 Speaker 1: crime news. Serial self mutilator and would be mass killer 27 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: Garret David finally died in a security ward from bizarre 28 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: self inflicted wounds, such as slicing off his penis three times. 29 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: Some pitied the tortured soul, but few mourned him, saydistic 30 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: sex offendern certified scum ian Melrose Patterson died of cancer 31 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: that same day, not before time. Even the palliative care 32 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: nurses hated being near the dying Patterson because he was 33 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:37,639 Speaker 1: such a creep. Finally, the man dubbed the ascot val 34 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: rapist was arrested after nine months of terrorizing women across 35 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: the northwestern suburbs of Melbourne. It was June the eleventh, 36 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three. Melbourne's long night of fear and loathing 37 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: was over. In daylight and in handcuffs. The figure who'd 38 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: caused such anguish and terror didn't look like a monster. 39 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: In daylight, he'd shrunk back into a pathetic human, just 40 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: an ordinary looking forty year old man with an ordinary name. 41 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: Anyone looking for outward signs of the cruelty he displayed 42 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: to the women he attacked might have glimpsed it in 43 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: eyes that seemed as dead as a shark's. He stopped 44 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: short of murder, but extreme violence never seemed far away. 45 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: He usually carried a knife during his string of sex assaults, 46 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: and often bound and sometimes gagged his victims. His attacks 47 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: were brutal and left women bruised or bleeding, and, in 48 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: one case, with a seventy two year old with broken ribs. 49 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: He taunted his victims and deliberately terrorized four of them 50 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: by returning to attack them again, one of them four 51 00:03:55,480 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: separate times. His youngest known victim was twenty two, the 52 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: oldest was eighty two. One was eight months pregnant. Another 53 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: had an eight year old daughter in the house, who 54 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: he threatened to harm if the mother resisted. His willingness 55 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: to attack old and young made him one of the 56 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 1: most feared rapists in our history and one of the 57 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 1: most despised prison inmates of the last thirty years. Like 58 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: Raymond mister Stinky Edmonds, he was an unidentified intruder who 59 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: preyed on women home alone after studying their movements the 60 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: way a crocodile watches and waits for prey. Like the 61 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: silver gun rapist Peter Vatos, he was a burglar who 62 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 1: discovered rape, an opportunist who became addicted to terrorizing defenseless women, 63 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: just as he had become addicted to theft to feed 64 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: his gambling addiction. For months before his arrest, this increasingly 65 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: bold predator caused fear and loathing among thousands of women 66 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: in the Northwestern suburbs where he struck most often. Asket 67 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: Vale was just one suburb of many where he preyed 68 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: on women living alone, but it was roughly the center 69 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: of a broad sweep extending from Carlton, where he lived 70 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: in a lodging house, to Airport West, near where he 71 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 1: had grown up in extreme poverty and abuse. The spate 72 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: of ugly home invasions that drew police and public attention 73 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: to the unknown rapist apparently began in late nineteen ninety 74 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: two and would continue until his arrest on June eleventh 75 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: the following year, But forensic tests revealed that the same 76 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: man was responsible for twice raping a middle aged woman 77 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: in Mooney Ponds more than five years earlier. It was 78 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: a double attack that shocked police who thought themselves unshockable. 79 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: That woman, by then in her fifties, had been a 80 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 1: nune most of her adult life. Before leaving her order. 81 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: She was a virgin. On Remembrance Day, November the eleventh, 82 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven, the rapist broke into her home in 83 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: a quiet Mooney Pond's street. He didn't just ignore the 84 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: former nun's terrified protests. It was as if he enjoyed 85 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: inflicting extra pain, physical and mental to a Catholic authority figure. 86 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: He specifically mocked her religion, asking her why God didn't 87 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 1: save her. He tied her up, took her bank card, 88 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: and forced her to tell him the security number so 89 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: he could empty her account. He gagged her and went 90 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: to get the cash, threatening to return and hurt her 91 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: if the number was wrong. He stole three hundred dollars 92 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: using the card, then returned and raped the poor woman again, 93 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: a crime wrongly attributed for years to another unidentified sex offender, 94 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: the child abductor, dubbed mister Crule. It wasn't until early 95 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three that a rash of rapes was alarming 96 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: so many people that public meetings were held in northwestern suburbs. 97 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: Detective Inspector Peter Harvey, acting head of the rape squad, 98 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: called on local police to help saturate key areas with 99 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: plain clothes police and cars. They formed a task force, 100 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: Operation Century, named after the rapist's habit of ordering frightened 101 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: victims to count to one hundred after he left them. 102 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: Many of the victims did not want to stay alone 103 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: in their homes and went to stay with relatives or friends. Sometimes, 104 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: an armed policewoman in casual clothes would move into a 105 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: victim's home and wait, acting as bait. Meanwhile, officers in 106 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: plain clothes wandered the streets looking from a man who 107 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: fitted the description that most victims gave, in his late 108 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: twenties or three thirties, with dark hair an Australian accent. 109 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: After four months, and with public fears still rising, the 110 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: rapist was still at large. Late on the night of 111 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: June tenth, nineteen ninety three, four task force members were 112 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: near the Essendon tram terminus when they saw a man 113 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: walk from a nearby street. As soon as he saw 114 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: them he knew he knew they were police. He spun 115 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: around and ran down the side street. The police chased 116 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: on foot. One of them, Constable Lindsey Hansen, was almost 117 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: run over as he pursued the fleeing man across Mount 118 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 1: Alexander Road before catching him and tackling him to the ground. 119 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: His name was Christopher Clarence Hall. He was interviewed, his 120 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,839 Speaker 1: address confirmed, and then he was released in the early 121 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: hours of the morning after providing a blood sample. This 122 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: was because his criminal record, which stretched back to his childhood, 123 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: was all for burglary and theft, not sex crimes. So 124 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,959 Speaker 1: on the night that the police grabbed this wandering person 125 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: who ran away from them when they thought, well, this 126 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: looks promising, but they looked up his record and it 127 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: was all for burglaries and thefts, long record, but no 128 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: sex crimes, and so on that night four in the morning. 129 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: By the time they'd finished with him, they turned him 130 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: back on the street because they didn't really have enough 131 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 1: to go on. But around noon next day police went 132 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: to Hall's rooming house, a boarding house re stayed in 133 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: Cardingen Street in Carlton, and they searched his room, and 134 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: they found incriminating items, including a pair of runners identical 135 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: to those that the unknown rapist had worn at a 136 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:01,559 Speaker 1: crime scene three weeks earlier. It was then that an 137 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: alert policewoman, Jacqueline Curran, saw a man matching Hall's description 138 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: in a nearby street. She grabbed him. In Hall's pocket 139 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: was a one way bus ticket to Catherine in the 140 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 1: Northern Territory. If the police had waited just a few 141 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: more hours, he would have been on his way to 142 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: the far North, where so many wanted men had gone 143 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: and vanished. Once there, he might have done the same, 144 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: but he had left his run too late. Hall faced 145 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: the County Court in May nineteen ninety four. He was 146 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: represented by respected criminal lawyer Brendan Wilkinson, who happened to 147 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: live in the Yessendon area and knew the school. Wilkinson 148 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: was personally very relieved to see that his new client 149 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: had been caught. Wilkinson, being a criminal lawyer, had seen 150 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: a lot of bad endings, especially for those with bad 151 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: starts in life. Hall's criminal records started in nineteen sixty five, 152 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: when he was just twelve. Hall was a loner who 153 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: was socially and sexually dysfunctional, one of a dozen children 154 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: born to a violent alcoholic father and a frightened mother, 155 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 1: trapped by poverty to a life of family violence. His 156 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: origin raises the question of whether he was born bad 157 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: or made that way? Was it nature or nurture, a 158 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 1: question we've asked many times in these podcasts. Police noted 159 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: that most of All's siblings had not been in trouble 160 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: with the law, and that his mother was the only 161 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: one in the family to support him during his trial. 162 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,319 Speaker 1: He wasn't at all popular with his siblings, particularly his sisters. 163 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: A troubled child at school, he'd been sent away to 164 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: institutions such as the notorious Saint a Gastine's orphanage run 165 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: by the Christian Brothers of Geelong and the Morning Star 166 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: Home run by Franciscan monks at Morning. Both institutions would 167 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: later be shut down after the exposure of systematic sexual 168 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: and physical abuse that produced a generation of ultraviolent offenders. 169 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: Gary David, the one we mentioned at the start that 170 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: did bizarre self mutilations until he died in hospital. He 171 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: was one of dozens and dozens of the children who 172 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: went through those sort of places. The notorious hit man. 173 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: Chris Rentikil Flannery was another. There were many of them, 174 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: including Stan Taylor, the man who took two young brothers 175 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 1: and turned them into bombers. The boys homes and orphanages 176 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: have a terrible record when it comes to producing ultraviolent men. 177 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 1: Judge Glenn Waldron tried Hall for nineteen counts of rape, 178 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: to have attempted rape, and six counts of causing serious 179 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:06,079 Speaker 1: injury and threats to kill and injure. He was also 180 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: charged with a total of eighteen burglary and theft offenses. 181 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: With his lawyer's agreement, Hall pleaded guilty. Rather than subjecting 182 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: his traumatized victims to cross examination about the worst hour 183 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: of their lives. He was meek in court, intimidated by 184 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: the presence of some of those he had hurt so grossly, 185 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: who came there to see justice done. A psychiatrist stated 186 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: that Hall did not suffer a mental illness. He wasn't normal, 187 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 1: but he certainly knew what he was doing. Judge Waldron 188 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: sentenced him to thirty four years with a minimum of 189 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: twenty seven, longer than most murder sentences, but in the 190 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 1: eyes of many or most well deserved The judge said 191 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 1: Hall had subjected the women quote to a humiliating, repulsive, 192 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: as well as terrifying experience, an evil that constituted the 193 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 1: high water mark of antisocial behavior unquote. An appeal court 194 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: did not quite agree, reducing the sentence to twenty nine 195 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: years with a minimum twenty five. But Jacqueline Curran, the 196 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: detective who had arrested Haul in Carlton before he could flee, 197 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: knew that he must have attacked other women. He didn't 198 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: just appear as an adult burglar in his thirties. She 199 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: interviewed Hall in prisons several times until he revealed other 200 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: rapes to her. In nineteen ninety seven, he was charged 201 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: with four more attacks. The extra convictions pushed his sentence 202 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: to thirty two years with twenty seven minimum. If Hall 203 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: had received full remissions for good behavior, he would have 204 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: been released in the year twenty twenty. Even if he 205 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: serves all of his sentence, he will be due for 206 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: release from the John Hopkins Facility for Sexual Offenders at 207 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: Ararat next year, maybe sooner. Whether he will be let 208 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: back on the street or be required to live in 209 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: the Village of the Damned, so called the community for 210 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: Sexual deviates at Ararat. He is hard to say. Judge 211 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: Waldron had no doubt about Hall's potential to re offend, 212 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: and he said this, even in comparative old age, there 213 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: is a real risk that you would offend again, he 214 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: told Hall when he sentenced him. His lawyer, Brendan Wilkinson, 215 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: recalls Christopher Hall as a pathetic figure, hated as much 216 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 1: in prison as he was on the outside. He also 217 00:15:55,320 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: recalls his grateful client, who had no money, no friends, 218 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: no family who wanted to know him, apart from his 219 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: mother making him. The lawyer a coffee mug in the 220 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: prison workshop as a gift. Wilkinson told me he used 221 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: that mug for years while he was at work, but 222 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: when the time came to clean out his office, his 223 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: wife told him not to bring it home. 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