There turned out to be a fair degree of conversation about My Friend the Rapist down the pub tonight... it was a quiet night, but that just meant that we all knew him to one degree or another. I think my seventeen or eighteen year acquaintance was the longest. (I once asked the lass who eventually became his wife out, and she knocked me back because she'd just started seeing him - well, maybe not solely for that reason, but that relationship was why he started coming down there and was how I became acquainted with him.)
I was chatting to the assistant manager (the same position that I held in that pub when I first met the guy) and he said that (having only known him over the last three years or so) he would describe him as "affable"...
the very same adjective that I used earlier
I found it striking that each of us had, independently, chosen that specific (and uncommon) adjective as the best word to describe him.
But there you go - Harold Shipman's patients, the vast majority of whom he just treated in accordance with their needs, apparently found him a very good GP; and I don't think Peter Sutcliffe was ever found to have driven his lorry incorrectly.
As Zeity said, you never see the can of worms...
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