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The Murder of Childhood Ray Wyre

The Murder of Childhood By Ray Wyre

The Murder of Childhood by Ray Wyre


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Contains extracts from Ray Wyre's revealing interviews with child serial-killer Robert Black. Analyses Black's murders of children, including Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg and Sarah Harper as well as his implied confession to the murder of Genette Tate. A new edition of an iconic work out of print for a decade.

The Murder of Childhood Summary

The Murder of Childhood: Inside the Mind of One of Britain's Most Notorious Child Murderers by Ray Wyre

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the death of sex-offending expert and founder of the Gracewell Clinic, Ray Wyre. It is also the twenty-fifth anniversary of the main events described in this book and 40 years since newspaper girl Genette Tate `disappeared into thin air'. Tim Tate and Charmaine Richardson (Wyre's widow) have meticulously re-visited a work that has been out of print for a decade, adding fresh Introduction, Preface and endpiece, `Twenty-five Years Later ....' They show how events have changed, including the further conviction of child serial-killer Robert Black for the murder of Jennifer Cardy and changes in policing methods, but criticise a continuing, possibly worse, failure to protect children from paedophiles in the internet age. They voice real concern that Ray Wyre's call to learn more about sex-offenders, their methods of operation and strategies of denial, distortion, deflection of blame and need for treatment, have not been heeded. Ultimately, the book paints a picture of political regression.

The Murder of Childhood Reviews

`Powerful ... Excellent ... Stands the test of time'-- Probation Journal; `A tribute to the extraordinary skill of Ray Wyre... who possessed a unique ability to enter the mind of offenders and by doing so provide the evidence which would bring to an end years of offending and unsolved crimes. By common agreement of judges, solicitors, investigators and his clinician peers... he was quite simply exceptional... one of the world's leading experts on sexual crime'-- Richard Monk, CMG, OBE, QPM, former Commander, Metropolitan Police and UN Police Commissioner in Bosnia and Kosovo (Review of 1st Edition); Amazon reviews (of first edition): `An uncomfortable but worthy read'; `The strongest account of Robert Black available'; `Powerful, unflinching, informative...'

About Ray Wyre

Tim Tate is an award-winning documentary film-maker, investigative journalist and best-selling author. Ray Wyre (1951-2008) was the only person Black would open up to and a nationally acknowledged expert in the sexual crime field. Charmaine Richardson is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse who married Ray Wyre in the late-1990s. Her life with him forms a central part of her 2018 book, Pick Up the Pieces.

Table of Contents

About the authors; Acknowledgements; Introduction to the Second Edition; Preface by Charmaine Richardson; Original 1995 Prologue; Introduction. 1. A Rush of Blood; 2. Nobody's Child; 3. A Kind of Madness; 4. Ghosts in the Machine; 5. The Price of Failure; 6. Into That Darkness; 7. Unquiet Graves; 8. The Politics of Paedophilia; Original 1995 Epilogue; Twenty-five Years Later; Index.

Additional information

NLS9781909976627
9781909976627
1909976628
The Murder of Childhood: Inside the Mind of One of Britain's Most Notorious Child Murderers by Ray Wyre
New
Paperback
Waterside Press
2018-10-17
306
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