![]() ![]() ![]() 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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