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London Road turns a community’s response to murder into a brilliant musical

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Britain’s National Theatre delivers a screen version of its acclaimed show drawn from real-life interviews. Late in 2006, a truck driver named Steve Wright was arrested in Ipswich, a river town in Suffolk, England, for the murders of five prostitutes who had offered themselves to men along the town's London Road, near a newly built sports stadium. The usual media circus ensued, sullying the town's reputation, before Wright was convicted on all counts in February 2008 and sentenced to life in prison.…

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