Ian Roberts Quotations

What they went on to tell me was that Arron had been under surveillance and that he had been, prior to him moving in he had often checked at known paedophile's house, houses.

The place he was staying at was a derelict house and there was a bunch of younger guys staying in it. I basically just packed up his stuff said to him 'come on, you can come and stay with Kirsty and I until we get you back on track',

Let's begin looking at it now. Let's not wait until the last minute.

On a number of occasions Arron actually showed me some of the statements. I still see Arron as a child, but that wasn't the writing of a child,

Nothing determines your creative life more than doing it.

I'd just come out and I was just like ... People are going to think that somehow I'm involved and I was so terrified ... of my own persona, my own profile.

I encourage everyone to get out and vote. Don't let it reflect poorly on the city by having a small voter turnout.

He was a really spritely, boisterous kid who you couldn't help but like, because he was so full of life and, and he was cheeky, but never nasty,

I went on just living that illusion that I'd already created for everyone else. I was treating it like a dirty secret or like Arron was this mistake in my life.

I went on just living that illusion that I'd already created for everyone else,

I was treating it like a dirty secret or like Arron was this mistake in my life.

I was told he was stabbed a number of times through the chest and then his body was wrapped in a carpet and dumped in a shallow grave and back-filled and left to rot and rot,

The police asked me if I could broach it with Arron, that they had this information and would he make a statement and would he be prepared to go to court to press charges against these men,

The toughest adjustment is definitely the food - the same thing for every meal - rawhide and beans.

They put him on for a moment and Arron was just screaming at me to get him out of there. I just said to the police officer 'this kid is not my responsibility and I don't want to hear from you guys again',

It was some police officers who wanted to come and speak to me about Arron,

It's kind of weird because Kirsty and I used to see a side of him that not may people would see. I can honestly say that I was probably the only person in that child's life, particularly male person, who he cared for and respected and would never, he would never speak badly to me,

I've got more of a chance of getting work over there and that's all I want to do. I don't care about being famous,

I remember just feeling the weight and responsibility and that moment in my life was just like 'My god Ian, this is going to destroy you',

Because of my build I get cast in a lot of henchman-style roles, and I'm happy for people to see me in that dimension if it means I get work.

And over a period of, like, months, I got to know Arron really well because I lived basically across the road from the hospital. Any time I seemed to be at the hospital, in the early stages of when I met Arron, he never had any visitors, he always seemed to be on his own.