Owen, his brother Steven Barker and Peter's mother Tracey Connelly were jailed following Peter's death in 2007.

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Dr Peter Barker, a lecturer in the German department at Reading University said Germany was in fact trying to deal with similar problems as those detailed in the article.

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Alan Ayckbourn wrote for Hark at Barker under the name of Peter Caulfield because he was employed as a BBC radio drama producer at the time and was not supposed to work elsewhere.

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