Criminal
Teenager Simon Willerton's suicide in 1990 brought to six the number of young prisoners who hanged themselves in British prisons in just over six months. It prompted a public debate over conditions in remand prisons and Armley in ...
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"Bullied at school, seventeen year old Simon Willerton had big dreams, but his young life was tragically cut short when he took his own life whilst awaiting trial for a minor crime. Thirty years on, and it's still a hard hitting, very powerful movie, no wonder this film quite rightly won awards, it deserved them. It's a chillingly sad story, one that actually gave me goosebumps, poor Simon, a product of a failed system, a young Man that needed help and care, his ultimate fate was deplorable. Paul Popplewell was first rate as Simon, a terrific performance, reading up on the young ma..."
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The Apollo Leisure - Unit Four Cinema where Simon takes his date Marie, opened in 1911 and remained open until 2000. It was demolished in 2001 and replaced with a block of flats.
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Teenager Simon Willerton's suicide in 1990 brought to six the number of young prisoners who hanged themselves in British prisons in just over six months. It prompted a public debate over conditions in remand prisons and Armley in ...