Quotes from Carol Ann Lee

Only once did Myra's impassive public facade drop: when she stuck her tongue out at reporters as she left court.

John Kay of The Sun said to me, "Anything you can give us about Myra, I will guarantee you a front-page spread." She was as lucrative to them as Princess Diana.

Like all children of that era, they had been diligently warned about strange men, but it never crossed their young minds to fear a woman.

One of the few journalists to whom she spoke relatively unguardedly recalls: 'The one phrase that really sticks in my mind is that she referred to Manchester as "Victim Country".

I can only describe my reaction to him as an immediate and fatal attraction, although I had no inkling then of just how fatal it would turn out to be.'1