![]() ![]() Pauline became Hilary Nathan and Juliet, Anne Perry. The pair served five years in different prisons and changed their names on release. The combination of matricide, Anne's well-to-do family - her scientist father Dr Henry Hulme was Rector of Canterbury University College in Christchurch, her mother Hilda a marriage guidance counsellor who'd been having an affair - and the suggestion of a lesbian relationship between the girls, rocked the quiet, conservative country. The attack was brutal, the coroner recorded 45 separate head wounds. On June 22, 1954, the girls battered Honorah Parker to death with a brick knotted into a sock, leaving her lying in a pool of blood in deserted Victoria Park, Christchurch. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pauline's mother forbade her daughter from leaving the country with Anne and Pauline hatched a horrifically misplaced plan to kill her. The triggers which led a mere girl of 15 to become a killer gave the film its fascination, as it recounted the real-life story of how, Anne - born Juliet Hulme - had befriended teenager, Pauline Parker, at school in 1950s New Zealand.įriendship turned to obsession, they sometimes shared a bed and baths, and when Anne's father announced he was sending Anne to sunnier South Africa to convalesce after a bout of tuberculosis, the girls were terrified of being separated. Melanie Lynskey (left) pictured as Pauline Parker, with Kate Winslet as Juliet Hulme in 1994 film Heavenly Creatures ![]()
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