Gabrielle Cox

Gabrielle Cox was Chair of the Greater Manchester Police Authority until it was abolished, along with the Metropolitan County Councils, in March 1986.

The Irresistible Rise of a Folk Hero

Gabrielle Cox, 3 March 1988

Nothing so exposes the levels of hypocrisy in our society as the Stalker case. This cause célèbre has turned an unknown policeman into a household symbol of integrity and innocence in a wicked world, and given him the kind of public attention associated with taxi or train-drivers who win Mastermind. Now his own long-heralded account of his experiences has been published.

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