Film aims to clear Sid Vicious of Nancy Spungen murder

Feb 1 2009 Sunday Sun

Two suspects in the frame

SID Vicious phoned the police to say he had found Nancy’s body, and then famously confessed . . . but he later retracted his statement.

Having already written a series of biographies about London-born Vicious, Alan Parker re-interviewed 182 people for the new film and re-examined NYPD evidence.

He also claims to have uncovered evidence revealing that a series of police blunders led to 21-year-old Vicious being wrongly accused.

He reveals that Vicious had taken 30 tablets of powerful sedative Tuinal before Spungen’s killing and would likely have been unconscious at the time she died.

He also claims police found fingerprints belonging to six people known to them in the hotel but never interviewed any of them, and that a stash of cash Vicious would have made from his cover of Frank Sinatra’s My Way and recent concerts was missing.

The film points the finger at a drug addict called Michael, who spent that last fatal night in the room with the couple. He disappeared after the murder and police made no effort to track him.

Another resident of the hotel was a would-be actor called Rockets Redglare, who allegedly confessed to a friend that he was the real killer.

He went on to star with Madonna in the Hollywood movie Desperately Seeking Susan, and with Tom Hanks in Big.

The 92-minute film is being premiered in London tomorrow and will go on general release from Friday.