From ‘a respectable home on a Cork estate’ to a murder sentence

HOW did Mark Papazian go from being a quiet boy, growing up in 1950s Ireland, to a would-be serial killer on the verge of causing mayhem in London?

The answer, uncomfortably for modern-day Ireland perhaps, would appear to lie partly in the combination of Papazian’s homosexuality and Catholicism.

One starting point is his middle name, the surname of Italian priest Father Eugenio Pacelli.