Casting for our Thriller

Our homeless man is played by Razzaq who has recently come over from Malaysia and therefore was very unfamiliar with Norwich making him seem more vulnerable, in which is depicted in our homeless character.

In 'The Times' online newspaper, there was an article written by Janice Turner who talks about who commit crimes such as murder. She states that 'men are responsible for 85% of all indictable crimes in England and Wales,  88% of crimes against the person, 90% of murders, and 98% of sexual offences (all for the year to June 2012).' This only leaves 10% of women who murder and therefore for our Thriller, we had to make the murder and murderer convincing. 

Turner then goes on to write 'In the case of homicide, men are more frequently the perpetrator. For those suspects where proceedings concluded in 2011/12, 89% were male (210 suspects) and 11% were female (25 suspects).' In our thriller we feature a shot of the female murderer crossing out pictures of homeless men implying she has murdered them and therefore she is the minority of murderers meaning she is less likely to be able to commit the murder.

Therefore the vulnerability of Razzaq having just moved from Malaysia, gives him a disadvantage making him defenceless and ideal to portray a vulnerable and weak homeless man.