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Mrs Lovett is a fictional character appearing as the business partner and accomplice of the barber / serial killer Sweeney Todd. She is normally referred to as Nellie although she has been known to carry many other names. Mrs Nellie Lovett is the only friend of fabled serial killer Sweeney Todd; in some versions of the story she is also known as his lover. Mrs Lovett is not necessarily known as evil, but is sure to be called a twisted, crazed woman who has no hesitation about making meat pies out of Sweeney Todd's' victims. In fact it is quite often she that develops the gruesome plans!
Sweeney Todd was a barber. But a barber with a difference, he murders his wealthy customers by deviously pulling a lever while they are sat in his barber chair, which unknown to them, is fixed to a revolving trap door which will make them fall backwards into Sweeney Todd's basement. This will generally cause them to break their skull or neck as they hit the ground. Just in case that has not done the job Sweeney Todd goes down to the basement to "polish them off!" by this he means he will slit the throat of his customer using a cut throat razor. Todd will then rob his wealthy dead victim of their worldly goods and his partner in crime, Mrs Lovett will assist him in disposing of the bodies by having their flesh packed into her meat pies and selling them to unsuspecting customers in the pie shop. "Times are ard!" Todd's barber shop is situated at 186 Fleet Street and is connected to Mrs Lovett's pie shop in Bell Yard by means of an underground passage.
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is a doctor who has covered up a secret life which if full of cruel and bad deeds. He is also fighting his subconscious as to what is good and what is evil and is pushing all the people that are close to him far away.
He is transformed into the cruel remorseless, evil Mr Hyde after drinking a potion of his own creation. Mr Hyde is the evil side of Dr Jekyll!
Sherlock Homes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was classed as a brilliant London based consulting detective, he was famous for his intellectual prowess and his skilful use for reasoning and astute observation skills on difficult cases. Holmes does have an ego that sometimes seems to border on arrogance, however quite often his arrogance is justified. He also describes himself and his habits as unorthodox and in his personal habits he is much disorganised. He has vices such as his habits of smoking cigars, cigarettes and pipes, and also his willingness to bend the truth and break the law when it suited his purpose. Sherlock Holmes was very proud to be British and he demonstrated this by the patriotic VR (Victoria Regina - Queen Victoria) made in bullet packs in the wall by his gun.
Dick (Richard) Turpin was a legendary rogue and a famous highwayman. Dick Turpin is probably the most famous of highway man of all. His name brings comments like "dashing" and "daring" and is the highwayman who famously rode from London to York on his faithful mare Black Bess in less than 24 hours. He served an apprenticeship in Whitechapel with a butcher but Turpin was a man who took part in a wide variety of criminal acts including deer stealing, burglary, highway robbery and likely murder. Turpin and his gang robbed their way around the Home Counties and he finally got caught for stealing 2 oxen. King George offered a fifty pound reward for his capture. He was convicted on two indictments and was sentenced to death. He was executed in York and his body was buried a number of times as people kept on digging it up. Finally he was buried in Quicklime in York.