“You know, it’s a shame. It’s a shame actually. I accept what he’s done, as in what the allegation is and potentially what the evidence shows. But it just appears like it’s a moment of madness – an extended moment of madness, but like a switch that’s just gone. Because he actually seems like a nice guy.”

Now it’s one thing to say that in private to your colleagues, and quite another to blurt it out when you’re fully aware there’s a Channel 4 camera crew filming your every word.

Apparently she had taken pity on Papworth because he had explained that he wanted to be granted bail so that he could see his teenage daughter who had been placed in foster care (a request that was obviously denied), but still, it’s not very reassuring to hear a police officer sympathise with a violent killer in this way. Imagine the friends and families of his victims listening to that? It’s actually insane that this guy had sole custody of his daughter in the first place (and was then dumb enough to murder someone as a single father).

Well anyway, I’m sure the chief superintendent or whoever will have a pre-emptive word with their staff the next time Channel 4 are in town.

To watch the moment a Lidl worker who ‘plotted a revenge attack at school’ was shot dead in his home in Somerset, click HERE.