http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Who%27s_playing_fiendWho's playing fiend - Revision history2026-05-05T06:36:00ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.33.0http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php?title=Who%27s_playing_fiend&diff=14173&oldid=prevJohn Lavalie: Created page with "{{article | publication = The Sun | file = 1997-02-05 Sun.jpg | px = 250 | height = | width = | date = 1997-02-05 | author = Peter Willis | pages = | language = English |..."2016-07-13T22:32:17Z<p>Created page with "{{article | publication = The Sun | file = 1997-02-05 Sun.jpg | px = 250 | height = | width = | date = 1997-02-05 | author = Peter Willis | pages = | language = English |..."</p>
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THIS is ex-Dr Who star Sylvester McCoy in a chilling new role — as one-legged kidnapper Michael Sams.<br />
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Sylvester, 53, plays Sams in a TV film telling how the fiend kidnapped Stephanie Slater and kept her in a makeshift coffin for eight days.<br />
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Last night Stephanie, 30, revealed she broke down when she saw the film because it brought the terrible memories flooding back.<br />
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She said: "When I first watched I thought 'That's how it really was' — it was so spooky."<br />
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Stephanie was a consultant on the £2million film Beyond Fear, which helps launch new TV station Channel Five on March 30.<br />
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She is played by Gina McKee, from BBC drama Our Friends In The North.<br />
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Estate agent Stephanie was snatched by Sams in January 1992 as she was showing him around a house in Birmingham.<br />
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He kept her lying down in a converted wheelie bin for eight days at his tool hire workshop in Newark, Notts.<br />
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Sams is now serving life for her kidknap and the abduction and murder of Leeds teenager Julie Dart.<br />
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Caption: Chilling ... Sylvester McCoy plays the evil one-legged killer Michael Sams<br />
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Caption: Sylvester .. as TV's Dr Who <br />
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Caption: Monster . . the real-life Sams<br />
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