'Britain's worst serial killer murdered my gran - now I'm playing him on stage'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe man with a big bushy beard who had a bowl of midget gems on his desk - that's how Edwin Flay remembers his family doctor.
But the world would come to remember him as Britain's worst serial killer. Harold Shipman was found to have killed at least 215 people, and one of them was 47-year-old Edwin's grandma. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features Now, Edwin has written a one-man show, The Quality of Mercy, in which he stars as the mass murderer.
And he says that while trying to write the play - which is currently running at the Edinburgh Fringe - he realised that the passage of time since Shipman's conviction had meant some people had lost sight of how truly evil his crimes were.
He said: “I remember talking about trying to write it to someone.. I said I had been working on a play about Harold Shipman, and I’ll never forget that she said, ‘Oh yes, he helped a few old dears over the threshold,’ and I had to say ‘No.
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