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

Author:   Ray Wyre ,  Tim Tate ,  Charmaine Richardson
Publisher:   Waterside Press
Edition:   2nd Special edition
ISBN:  

9781909976627


Pages:   306
Publication Date:   17 October 2018
Format:   Paperback
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The Murder of Childhood: Inside the Mind of One of Britain's Most Notorious Child Murderers


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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.

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Author:   Ray Wyre ,  Tim Tate ,  Charmaine Richardson
Publisher:   Waterside Press
Imprint:   Waterside Press
Edition:   2nd Special edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
ISBN:  

9781909976627


ISBN 10:   1909976628
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   17 October 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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.

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Amazon reviews (of first edition): `An uncomfortable but worthy read'; `The strongest account of Robert Black available'; `Powerful, unflinching, informative...'


Author Information

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.

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