Reportage: A Real Life Murder Story - Part One of Four
When my film agent, Rod Hall, was murdered in 2004 I felt compelled to find out what happened and why.
The article below was the most difficult and painful piece I wrote in my many years as a journalist. I questioned several times subsequently if I was right to publish it and whether its fly-on-the- wall reconstruction of a terrible crime was dishonouring the memory of a man I knew and respected.
I decided in the end that it was a piece important enough…
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