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Author makes film of Richey for capital festival



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Published Date: 07 May 2008
By DOUGLAS WALKER
IRVINE Welsh, the author of Trainspotting, has made a film about the Scottish former death row inmate Kenny Richey.
The short film centres on Richey's struggle to readapt to life since his release from a US jail in January.

Now the former inmate, who is currently unemployed, says he would like a job as an actor.

The film will be premiered at this summer's Edinburgh International Film Festival, which is officially launched today.

The picture, which is so far untitled, was filmed last month in Dalry, Edinburgh, where Richey lives.

Welsh and his film crew met the former prisoner at his mother's flat.

Richey is seen talking about his fight with depression since he was released from prison in January.

He was also rigged up to an audio device that recorded his heartbeat, which is used as the movie's soundtrack.

The pair are then seen leaving the flat and walking along the street, swigging from tins of lager.

They make their way to Richey's local pub, Dickens Lounge Bar, where they chat with regulars.

Richey said: "I enjoyed filming and wouldn't mind doing more in the future."



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Suzi B,

07/05/2008 00:37:57
Well, that should make his integration into Scottish society so much easier. Not.
I started out feeling a bit sorry for this man but I am beginning to harbour dreams of parceling him up like Orville in that stupid post office advert and sending him anywhere but here.
I'm sorry if I'm about to sound cruel, but the thought of pastey faced Kenny on the silver screen strutting down the street swilling lager makes me want to heave my jaffa cakes.
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Lillig,

07/05/2008 08:47:25
Suzi B - have a little compassion, the man is struggling to find some kind of equilibrium. It cannot be easy for him. Its hard enough getting a job at his age without also having to say he was on death row for murder. No disclosure for him then.
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Suzi B,

07/05/2008 13:24:26
Lillig.
He would find it a lot easier if he wasn't in the Scotsman every day behaving like an @sshole. Reading through the articles to the right of this page doesn't make for edifying reading in the main. It can't have been easy being on death row, but one suspects that even without the dodgy conviction, he would have been in jail somewhere over the last 20 years. He is now on the wrong side of 40 and needs to accept his own part in the hand life has dealt him. Terry Waite was incarcerated for 4 years in dreadful circumstances but you don't see his name in the paper behaving like he suffers from a bad case of arrested development. All I can say is now he's done the film, I can't wait to read the book........
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Beryltheperil ,

07/05/2008 13:54:15
I agree with SuziB.

I can have compassion for the fact he was on death row for 21 years due to a very dodgy case. However, this man could be doing more to help himself. for all the articles printed in this paper and others, most are about nightclubs he is refused entry to and other nonsense.

If I was him I would still be shouting about my innocence and how I was done wrong.

The man needs help, that is clear to see however he could refuse to talk to reporters and move on to the normal life he keeps harping on about wanting. Be he doesn't.

He is using the media and the media are using him and it appears to suit both sides.
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Suzi B,

07/05/2008 14:12:36
You're right Beryltheperil. Sadly, he is becoming nothing but a space filler for the Scotsman in a sad symbiotic relationship where neither recognises that he is fast becoming a waste of space.
And why isn't he locked into a book deal where he can tell his side of the story and protest his innocence and that of many other death row inmates? Like you say, your natural instinct would be to seek opportunities to put right the wrongs, and that doesn't include bleating to the newspaper about nightclub persecution!
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denisedobie,

lancs 07/05/2008 19:34:56
how about making a living selling stories to the press...ooppps silly me, thats what hes doing now!!!
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07/05/2008 23:05:19
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Pandamack,

08/05/2008 10:12:53
The compulsive expression by Richey, of the catalogue of persecution suffered at the hands of anyone who fails to comply with his desires, removes, as a possible title for Mr.Welsh's opportunistic film, the use of "Silence of the Bams"

 

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