David Yallop
David Anthony Yallop (born 27 January 1937) is a British author who writes chiefly about unsolved crimes. In the 1970s he contributed scripts for a number of BBC comedy shows. In the same decade he also wrote 10 episodes for the ITV court drama, Crown Court.
In October 1992 he lost his job when, as a scriptwriter for EastEnders, he proposed killing some of the characters by means of an IRA bomb. Yallop successfully sued the BBC for breach of contract.[1] He was also one of the co-authors of Graham Chapman's autobiography, A Liar's Autobiography (Volume VI).
Yallop lives in North London and describes himself as a "Catholic agnostic".[2][3]
Books
His books include:
- To Encourage The Others (about the Craig/Bentley murder case)
- The Day The Laughter Stopped (a biography of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle)
- Beyond Reasonable Doubt? (the conviction of New Zealand farmer Arthur Allan Thomas (later pardoned), for the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe) was made into a docu-drama feature film, 1978, ISBN 0 552 13453 8
- Deliver Us From Evil (about the Yorkshire Ripper)
- In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I, Bantam Books, 1984
- To the Ends of the Earth (about the capture of Carlos)
- How They Stole the Game (about football)
- Unholy Alliance (about the international drug trade and resultant political corruption)
- The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of Pope John Paul II's Vatican (about the Papacy of Pope John Paul II)
- Beyond Belief (about the sexual abuse allegations in the Catholic Church)
References
- ↑ The Guardian, The cutting edge, 18 October 1993
- ↑ Herald Scotland, "Why did this "saint" fail to act on sinners within his flock?", Anne Simpson, May 26, 2007
- ↑ John Cornwell, A Thief in the Night: Life and Death in the Vatican, Penguin Books, 1989, p. 181
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