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In 1968, at the age of eleven, Mary Bell was tried and convicted of manslaughter after the death of two small boys in Newcastle upon Tyne. Gitta Sereny attended the trial and spent the next two years researching and writing what has become a classic study, "The Case of Mary Bell". Over the years, however, she came to realize that if we are ever to understand the pressures which being a child to commit serious crimes, only they, when adult, can tell us. Twenty-seven years after her conviction and her sentence of detention for life, after her mother's death, Mary Bell agreed to talk about her harrowing childhood, her two terrible acts, her public trial and her twelve years of detention. Born in 1920s Vienna, Gitta Sereny is one of the most distinguished journalists in Europe. Her previous books include "Into That Darkness" and an award-winning biography of Albert Speer.
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