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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

‘Hard to watch’: a play about Harold Shipman by the grandson of one of his victims

Edwin Flay as Harold Shipman in Quality of Mercy.
A ‘psychological study’: Edwin Flay as Harold Shipman in The Quality of Mercy. Photograph: Mobius

He was a big man with a bushy beard and a bowl of sweets on his desk for good boys and girls.

This is all Edwin Flay remembers about Harold Shipman, whose surgery in Hyde he visited as a small child in the 1970s. The GP later became the UK’s most persistent serial killer, ending the life of about 250 of his patients.

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