How had the Met had come to believe Nick and then, on his say-so alone, cruelly expose a number of very eminent, innocent individuals to vile and false accusations? I was asked to resolve this question.
Sir Simon Day, who has died aged 88, was a highly influential figure in the West of England as, among many other things, Conservative leader of Devon County Council; he also headed the West Country Television consortium which in 1980 bid to replace Westward TV, which had been crippled by boardroom infighting.
The mystery surrounding the crimes of Kieran Kelly, who died in Durham prison in 2001, are examined in The Nobody Zone: Interview with an Irish Serial Killer on RTE on Monday evening.