A Comment piece about The Secret, the television series based on the 1991 murders of Trevor Buchanan and Lesley Howell, mistakenly referred to Lauren Bradford as the daughter of Trevor Buchanan. She is Lesley Howell’s daughter. We apologise for the error. (“When true-crime TV drama only adds to the pain”, last week, page 37).
Seamus O’Mahony, of University College, Cork, was confused with Seamus O’Mahony of Cork University hospital when selecting an image of the author of “We doctors can’t prescribe a ‘good death’” (Comment, last week, page 36). Apologies.
In our Books pages last week, we used a picture purporting to show Robert Coombes, convicted of murder in 1895, with his brother Nattie. However, the book, The Wicked Boy, does not include the picture as the identity of the boys cannot be verified (“Anatomy of a little monster”, New Review, last week, p37).
In “Ballads for a lost Utopia” (New Review, last week, page 12) some quotes about growing up in Skelmersdale were drawn from an article by writer Caroline Christie and inadvertently attributed to The Magnetic North’s Simon Tong. Apologies.
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