Poor Little Nell

I misheard the newsreader the other day. She had actually been referring to one of the murdered women in Ipswich whose name was Paula. The story from Suffolk is certainly very grim and Dickensian. It seems obvious to me that the right thing to do would be to let the drug addicts have access to NHS equivalents and then they would not need to work in this degrading trade. The men who use these women are taking advantage of their addled state.

Incidentally, I was just thinking to myself this morning that the new particular reports of this case sound very much like the details of the plot of P D James' Devices and Desires when they mentioned the same on the radio (Today Radio 4, of course).