He dismissed suggestions that the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald would take revenge on the UK for the detention of his partner, David Miranda, by exposing more secrets about British spies.
He added that the programmes featured actors talking about the "adrenaline rush" experienced during the riots, taking revenge against police and bricks being thrown at cars – all issues raised during the trial.
SH And you don't really achieve revenge, do you?
Ahmed firmly denies seeking any sort of violent revenge for his cousin's death, but frequently accuses GMP of "murder".
"Justice must not turn into revenge," said Amnesty's Philip Luther.
Related: Alastair Cook hits out at ECB for sacking him as England's one-day captain Now, with the intention to shore up English cricket following a chastening World Cup campaign – and gain revenge for a 1-0 defeat suffered on their last trip to the Caribbean in 2009 – the selectors have once more turned to the experienced right-hander, with the first Test starting in Antigua on 13 April.
The Shawshank Redemption Sleeper hit The Shawshank Redemption, stars Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne: a banker wrongly jailed for murdering his wife, who spends two decades getting sweet revenge on the corrupt governor, while plotting his own ingenious escape.
She told the MoS: "It was fired by hatred and revenge, and I'm the first to admit I'm not proud of that, but it worked for me".
Dead Man's Shoes, the eviscerating 2004 revenge drama that he co-wrote, may still be his calling card, but he long ago proved his versatility with comic performances in Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Hot Fuzz and The World's End, and, respectively, understated and then wildly overstated roles in Richard Ayoade's Submarine and The Double.
Carr described that period for the ALP as playing out a "Jacobean revenge drama: in one act the knife is flashing, the blood is flowing, the next act that's got to be avenged, the next act he's smoldering with hatred, the final act the stage is littered with gasping corpses".
It speaks of a desire for revenge for an old wrong, the rape and murder of a princess by a man in the Lannisters' command.
