Furthermore, his "breathtakingly detailed, lurid and graphically gory descriptions" of the aftermaths of crimes had to be frequently toned down by his seniors.
In this scene, Tom's son, James, played by Christopher Denham, confronts his father about the aftermath of his crime.
The library at Stony Stratford, on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, looks like the aftermath of a crime, its shell-shocked staff presiding over an expanse of emptied shelves.
Reflecting on the heightened state of security across Europe, Ms. Edwards, the resident who came across the aftermath of the crime, said: "I don't feel unsafe.
OK, so Mrs Biggs didn't kill anyone, but that one – starring Sheridan Smith as this does – was about the aftermath of the crime of the century.
He said: "It truly would have been much easier to have taken us all, than have to cope with the aftermath of this crime.
Kevin, a fussy baby and a sullen toddler, grows up into a sociopathic school shooter, and Ms. Ramsay deals with both the prehistory and the aftermath of his crime, offering clues and patterns instead of explanations.
Grim as it is, the violence serves a purpose, making us consider all the innocent people whose lives are touched and often crushed in the aftermath of a crime.
These realities, and not the malevolence of liberal opportunists, were why, in the immediate aftermath of the crime, the "national conversation" focussed on the nation's poisonous political and rhetorical climate.
