1st Edition

Psychopath The Case of Patrick MacKay

By Tim Clark, John Penycate Copyright 1976
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1976, Psychopath is a study of Patrick Mackay who, in 1974 – with a string of muggings and killings behind him – was on trial for murder and was imprisoned in November 1975. John Penycate and Tim Clark – responsible for the controversial BBC Panorama programme on Patrick Mackay’s case – here take their investigation further and raise the important question of how the... Read more

Acknowledgements 1. ‘I feel terrible about what happened’ 2. ‘My father used to get violently drunk’ 3. ‘Manipulated like a ruddy puppet on a string’ 4. ‘In Moss Side I was classified as a psychopath’ 5. ‘The sudden step to the outside community’ 6. ‘She was not a bad soul’ 7. ‘These murders were so solemn’ 8. ‘Incapable of restraining himself’ 9. ‘Killings that I cannot myself remember’ 10. ‘I shan’t shed a tear’

Biography

Tim Clark and John Penycate