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Brian Capron Interview We had the opportunity to interview one of the nation’s most notorious on-screen murderers... so we sent Liza. Could you tell us about your early life and childhood? I never knew my real father; he was French Algerian and was in the French Air Force. He married my mum who was in the WRAF and after the war, whilst my mother was pregnant with me, they went back to Algeria. I do not know what happened but she left him and came back to live with her mother in Suffolk. She was from quite a poor country family in a place called Woodbridge and that’s where she had me. Her mother already had quite a lot of children but she let us stay in that house for about six months until my mother got a job as a kind of housekeeper in a little terrace house for an old man who lived on his own. She kept house for him and let me stay there as well so that was the beginning. It was nice but it was a bit strange to have a funny old man around the place. My Nan was just down the road and my uncles were always very, very good to me and always had a terrific sense of humour. Then my stepfather came along and he had also been in the RAF funnily enough. He had been posted with the Lancasters out to Burma for three years. He joined up when he was about 17 so he had quite an interesting life. My stepdad Terry he…I will not say rescued me, but he took us away from Suffolk because he became an airport policeman. We then lived for three or four years in rooms in other people’s houses while he worked at Northolt Airport and then eventually at Heathrow Airport. In all, we lived in probably about eight or nine difference places. It was difficult - changing schools and losing friends and all that kind of thing but eventually we ended up in a place called Stanwell near Staines on the edge of Heathrow Airport in our own I did not know what I was going to do but then I got expelled from school over a girl 9