fury at corrie's 'sick' plot

[kerry4nigel]

Coronation Street bosses have been urged to scrap a 'sick' scene which was filmed at the scene of the Moors murders.

DISTRAUGHT Moors murder mum Winnie Johnson told of her outrage last night after learning Corrie bosses had filmed a controversial scene where her son was buried.
Old wounds were reopened when the soap’s Sally Webster forced tearaway daughter Rosie into a car and drove her to bleak Saddleworth Moor outside Manchester
Winnie, whose 12-year-old son Keith Bennett was among the young victims of 60s killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, said the scene amounted to child abduction.

The 72-year-old mum, who still does not know the exact location of Keith’s windswept grave, added:
I had to sit down when I heard what they have done. Are they going out of their way to be sick? This is outrageous and plain disgusting.
I lost my son out on those moors. I go there every year to lay flowers in memory of him.
But to film a child abduction up there after everything that has happened is a disgrace.
I love Coronation Street but after this sick publicity stunt I’m not sure I can watch it any more.
The Corrie scenes, shot last week, are due to be screened in six weeks.

Many of the soap’s staff also felt the location was inappropriate.

An insider said: “A lot of people in Manchester are still angry about what happened up there. It was bad taste.”
A spokesman for the soap said: “No offence was meant. The pictures released were unofficial and are not necessarily representative of what will be shown on screen.

“Rosie is taken by her own mother and there is never any sense of her being in danger.

“She is being taken to a boarding school and not to the Moors specifically.”
Source - The Sun

[alan45]

I think this is an over-reaction. There is no comparison. Hindley and Brady tortured their victims before burying them on the Moors. The Corrie story is completely different. Whilst I have every sympathy for the victims of these two evil people it does not mean that no film can ever be shot in the area. If we thought that then no other film would be shot in London, New York or Baghdad

[Angeltigger]

oh so rosie is going to broading school- so i will not have to see her no-more..

[alan45]

oh so rosie is going to broading school- so i will not have to see her no-more..

The Moors are not a person but a place
for example North Yorkshire Moors (http://www.north-york-moors.com/)

The above reply was posted before the post was edited The ORIGINAL question was Who is the The Moors

[Em]

I think this is an over-reaction. There is no comparison. Hindley and Brady tortured their victims before burying them on the Moors. The Corrie story is completely different. Whilst I have every sympathy for the victims of these two evil people it does not mean that no film can ever be shot in the area. If we thought that then no other film would be shot in London, New York or Baghdad

I agree. Whilst I have every sympathy for the woman, its just a location - there is no saying that the moors will be portrayed as that actual location.

The storyline is quite dissimilar to the moors case, so I dont see why it is an issue

[Angeltigger]

The Moors are not a person but a place
for example North Yorkshire Moors (http://www.north-york-moors.com/)

The above reply was posted before the post was edited The ORIGINAL question was Who is the The Moorsokay thanks Alan- it as i read it again and understood it

[Siobhan]

I think this is an over-reaction. There is no comparison. Hindley and Brady tortured their victims before burying them on the Moors. The Corrie story is completely different. Whilst I have every sympathy for the victims of these two evil people it does not mean that no film can ever be shot in the area. If we thought that then no other film would be shot in London, New York or Baghdad

Hasn't many modern versions of wuthering heights been filmed on the moors? After all that is where it was set. I agree with you Alan, if they stop filming there, then they would never be able to film in any place there was a murder.

[Red08]

I can understand what u all mean but you must be able to see it from this womans point of view. Her son is buried there, she has no idea where and goes there every year to place flowers. I think the point this lady is trying to make is the nature of the filming, which, even though she is with her mum is being portrayed as child abduction.

[Em]

I disagree that the scene amounts to child abduction, I think its been taken in the wrong context.

I also disagree that this is a publicity stunt - its not like Sally is taking her to the Moors on purpose its only a filming location.

[Keating's babe]

I disagree that the scene amounts to child abduction, I think its been taken in the wrong context.

I also disagree that this is a publicity stunt - its not like Sally is taking her to the Moors on purpose its only a filming location.

Agreed. It must be horrible for the families of the victims to try and get over something like that.

However, the Corrie storyline doesn't bear any resemblance to what happened. If it did then it would, indeed, be in bad taste.

[Katy]

i can understand if the scene involved a stranger tieing up Rosie and sticking her in the back of a van but its not its a mother taking her daughter to a school whicjh happens to be filmed on location. I doubt corrie would have done this deliberatly.

[Johnny Allen]

you know what these things annoy me, this is front page news, I mean for goodness sake, like most of you have said its only a setting. I am very sorry for the mother but the media has blown it out of all proportion.

[Siobhan]

you know what these things annoy me, this is front page news, I mean for goodness sake, like most of you have said its only a setting. I am very sorry for the mother but the media has blown it out of all proportion.

Front page news?? why? I heard about a big incident that happen yesterday in Dublin and I can't find it on any news site and yet something like this make front page

[Katy]

i dont think its fair on the lady its a terrible thing that happened to her but why does it need dragging up. Especially on the front page. I cant see all the fuss myself but i wasnt alive when the murders took place so i dont know how id feel, if the location was used.

[Johnny Allen]

Yep front page on The Sun, a paper that always likes to cause problems.

[alan45]

The fact that the editor of the Sun is Rebekah Wade who is married to one of the Chuckle brothers from EE is probably a mere coincidence. With Corrie doing so well at the minute and EE not so well has nothing to do with it either :rolleyes:

[Richie_lecturer]

Yes, I predict a conspiracy theory from Fleet Street. :cool:

[DaVeyWaVey]

I can understand how the mother may feel about this but as previous posters have said, this has been blown out of proportion. Sally isn't exactly kidnapping her own daughter she is just taking her for a drive to the moors where these murders happened, but i can understand how the mother may feel as it could bring back terrible memories for her.

[littlemo]

I think if she is traumatised by the thought of a scene being filmed where her son was murdered, she should just not watch it. I don't know much about this storyline, but am I right in thinking the scenes take place in the car and not on any marsh land or ground that could possibly be a crime scene?

As said before everybody has sympathy for a parent whose lost a child, but life has to go on for everybody else, no matter how hard it might be. Sally and Rosie are characters in a soap, just actors playing a part.

[xStephaniex]

i feel for the women who lost her son. but it is just a location and it cant just stop being used because her son's grave is up there. if i got that right? . no one is stopping her from going up there and placeing flowers every year, i hope it all turns out ok.

[dddMac1]

i feel sorry for this lady but corrie would not of done this delibrity

[crystalsea]

Even on this sight, people were discussing Rosie being kidnapped by her mother, and a possible car crash etc.

I can understand that the lady in question, was distressed by the scenes, being of abducting/or taking a child away without the child's consent. And it could be portrayed as bad taste.

Had it been of a different scene, for example, picnic of two lovers it wouldn't have been seen as bad taste.

But you guys are right about the media, they do have to sensationalise things so that it all gets out of proportion.

[Em]

Until the episode airs, we have no idea what the storyline will be for definate - so I dont think anyone can complain until then.

If the moors are merely a location and not portrayed as the actual moors, I perosnally dont see the problem.

If someone hadnt seen the filming, and the moors are not protrayed as such, no-one woudl have been any the wiser.

[Red08]

I don't think saying this lady shouldn't watch is the point anyone was trying to make and don't see how that would help. I think if any other programme did the same she would feel the same. To us its just a location, to her this is the place her son was murdered!

[inkyskin]

I totally agree that's it an over reaction,if you think about how many murders have happened everywhere,or similarities between soaps and real life,soapland would be stuffed!

[alan45]

Oh dear dear that looks like the end of the much loved Heartbeat which is set in the Yorkshire Moors. It regularly involves scenes of criminal activity on the said Moors. What absolute hypocrisy on the part of The Sun. With respect to the woman in question I think her reaction (if the Sun are to be believed :rolleyes: is way OTT)

Do the relatives of people murdered in 9/11 call for any programmes or films which depict New York to be pulled. What about EE should it be pulled because it takes place in London and it could remind folks of 7/7. After all Walford has a tube station and there was a Barizilian man shot dead in a tube station.

Thats how ridiculous this over-reaction is by the Sun :mad:

[Siobhan]

I could have understood the outrage at the plane crash in Emmerdale years ago because of Lockerbye (sp?) but it still went ahead. It is not like Sally is going to murder or torture Rosie in the moors

[Jojo]

I do think this is going a bit over the top isn't it - if storylines weren't filmed about things that have happened, or near to places where people have had awful things happen to them, nothing would get filmed!! Very daft..