The need to share a dark secret
BBC News, Friday, 4 April 2008
- Julian Joyce
Multi-millionaire poet and publisher Felix Dennis has retracted a drunken murder “confession” made to a newspaper journalist.
But even if Mr Dennis’s words turn out to be - as he says - “a load of hogwash”, how unusual is it for genuine murderers to risk their freedom by sharing their secrets?
According to the Times, Mr Dennis - one of the original founders of the counterculture magazine Oz in the 1960s and now a publisher with an estimated £750m fortune - confessed to a murder “about 25 years ago”, in order to protect a woman.
After several bottles of wine were shared, he told writer Ginny Dougary: “I’ve killed a man… pushed him over the edge of a cliff.”
07 Apr 2008 Administrator