WHY on earth would anyone presume that they know another person well enough to pick their character to pieces when all they’ve seen of them is a televised re-creation of a sensational interlude that tore their life apart in a way no-one could have foreseen?
I speak, of course, of the lowlife who’ve criticised Nick Bailey’s wife, Sarah, on the basis of having watched the BBC’s The Salisbury Poisonings and assuming they now know everything about the real people at the heart of the tragedy.
They are so stupid they cannot tell a drama series – a very gripping one, I have to say - from reality.
Det Sgt Bailey has had to take to social media to hit back at these ‘armchair experts’ and their negativity.
But it should have come as no surprise. We see this kind of gratuitous nastiness online all the time.
This is why, as I’ve said before, website and social media commentators should not be allowed to post anonymously. It emboldens the cowards who’d never dare put their names to the cruel rubbish that they spout.
When the BBC announced the project last year, I warned that it might be too soon for the people most closely affected by these events, and for our tourist trade, given the difficulty we were experiencing in persuading people to come here again.
Now, of course, every town and city in the country is experiencing financial difficulty, for another reason entirely, so perhaps this show couldn’t really do much more damage to our economy. Look on the bright side!
The programme provides an excuse for conspiracy theorists to spread their fake news all over again, although I do not believe, by any means, that we have been told the whole truth about this terrifying episode. There are still many questions hanging in the air.
One fact there’s no doubt about. The air ambulance charity still hasn’t been compensated by the government for the £100,000 costs it incurred, which is shameful.
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