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
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