THE man cleared of being the Beast of Birkenhead has requested that everyone stop referring to him as ‘the Beast of Birkenhead’ from now on.
After being freed from the longest miscarriage of justice in British history, the Beast of Birkenhead has asked if the media and country could from now on refer to him by his given name and not the inaccurate yet memorable title created by the media.
The Beast of Birkenhead said: “It’s Peter Sullivan. If you could splash that across all the front pages in huge letters next to the word ‘innocent’, I’d really appreciate it.
“I recognise it’s not as attention-grabbing but it is accurate, which it has in common with the overturning of my guilty verdict. It’s not like everyone feels duty-bound to refer to Oscar Pistorious as a gold-winning Paralympian, is it? People change.
“How about a snappy nickname related to my being exonerated after 38 years? Maybe ‘Saint Peter Sullivan’ or ‘The Man Merseyside Police F**ked Over’? Any chance of getting the tabloid headline writers to have a go at that?”
A Sun journalist said: “But if we don’t call him the Beast of Birkenhead nobody will know who he is. A random wrong-place-wrong-time innocent won’t sell papers.
“How about ‘the former Beast of Birkenhead’? Can’t say fairer than that.”
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