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Of the more than twenty million who were taken captive, at least half died on the ghastly march to the “factories” that were scattered mainly along Africa’s west coast.

Meanwhile, Del Toro amps up the action, starting the film off with a ghastly great sequence in which Elordi’s Creature punches a sailor so hard his spine snaps into a backward somersault.

"Really ghastly," says Dame Margaret Beckett, who was number two under John Smith in the 1990s.

The commissioner described Panorama's footage, obtained by secret filming, as "vile to watch", calling the officers involved "ghastly, ghastly individuals".

Kirk’s death was ghastly and contemptible, but in a media environment and country conditioned to move on, its shock is already beginning to wear off.