Compare And Contrast David Mulcahy V.

The two boys met at Haverstock Secondary School in Greater London in September 1970 , in the school’s playground. David Mulcahy was tall and quite an extrovert character, so he fitted in well with the other pupils. By contrast, John Duffy was very “peculiar looking” according to Stephen Wright, The Daily Mail crime editor who studied extensively on the pair. Duffy was “short, red-head and suffered from severe acne”32. Richard Priestly, a pupil who was in the same year as Duffy, said that Duffy would “always be alone at lunch and break, wearing the same parker coat with the hood up”26 in the summer and winter which made him the subject of even more ridicule. He added that Duffy’s “behaviour wouldn’t fit with normal school children”26 and “he was picked on frequently, he was

One of the rape victim went as far as describing the pair as someone with “one mind but two bodies”, which was later a headline for a newspaper, The Guardian . Duffy admitted to Cutler, his psychologist, that he was “aroused to the idea of rape” and said that Mucahy was “deviously sexually aroused to violence, to make threats and be aggressive”, but never to rape or kill. Prisoner psychologist Jenny Cutler: “they found offending very exciting and rape added to that excitement”. He also self-confessed that even from a young age Mucahy had an interest in the “army and military manuals” and “holding people hostage”. Mulcahy also enjoyed “terrorising people” by jumping out on people from behind the bushes and scaring them, and he himself said that he shared all these interests too. Wright described that “Mulcahy influenced Duffy to play a game of cricket with a hedgehog”27 in school one day until the animal died. He said that they were “sadistic”27 from childhood. This would suggest that nurture affected Duffy as he was influenced by Mulcahy to commit these acts from a young