10 Rillington Place (1971)

Edward Evans: Det. Inspector

Quotes 

• Timothy John Evans : I want to give myself up, I've disposed of my wife.

  Det. Inspector : Now wait a minute, do you realise what you're saying?

  Timothy John Evans : I know what I'm saying, I can't sleep for it, I want to get it of my chest... she was expecting see and we had one already. Anyhow, I met this fellow in Ipswich, in a caff, he just came up to me and gave me this bottle of stuff. I told her not to take it but she said she was going to anyhow. So I come home from work and there she is - dead, she had the empty bottle besdie her... I didn't know what to do so I got... I didn't know what to do so at 2 in the morning I got her downstairs and I opened the drain outside the front door and I... put her body down the drain... and then I come down here.

  Det. Inspector : Do you want to make a statement, in writing?

  Timothy John Evans : ...I'll tell you about it and you write it down eh, I'm not all that educated, I don't do any of that reading and writing.

• Det. Inspector : [On phone]  He's a bit simple you know...

• Det. Inspector : Well now, the drain where you said you put your wife's body, its been examined, there's nothing there.

  Timothy John Evans : [Uncertain]  I put it there...

  Det. Inspector : I see, its a manhole is it.

  Timothy John Evans : I expect so.

  Det. Inspector : Who helped you lift the lid off?

  Timothy John Evans : I did it myself.

  Det. Inspector : Who are you trying to kid, it took 3 men to lift it off.

  Timothy John Evans : I don't know about that - I did it...

• Timothy John Evans : Alright, I only said that to protect a man named Christie.

  Det. Inspector : Christie?

  Timothy John Evans : Yes, its not true about the man in the caff... now I'll tell you the truth.