Glusburn boy Christopher Town has a killer role in a TV drama next Monday. The nine-year-old, of Bungalow Road, plays acid bath murderer John George Haigh as a child. Martin Clunes plays the evil charmer - who murdered six people in London in the 1940s - as an adult in the major ITV film "A is for Acid". Haigh dissolved the bodies of his victims in acid, and was hanged for his crimes in 1949. Christopher plays Haigh as a 10-year-old boy in the opening scenes of the drama, which begins at 9pm. He was chosen because casting directors needed a blond-haired child who could also play the organ and sing. Christopher, who attends Sutton Community Primary School, has performed in numerous local shows and appeared in the CITV comedy series Wilmot.
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