P. K. Richer was born in Portsmouth, and attended Portchester Comprehensive School between 1980 and 1985. He left school with GCSE ‘O’ Levels in Art and English language, plus a handful of CSEs. He studied painting and sculpture at Portsmouth College of Art, performing arts at Southdowns College, and electronics servicing at Fareham College. He has also been a foundry worker, a sheet-metalworker, and a forklift truck driver.
I’d seen chaps killed before, of course: Tuppy Horton was the first; accidentally garroted by his own braces, whilst playing ‘Cowboys and Indians’ back in 1922. There had been raw terror in poor old Tuppy’s bulging, bloodshot eyes as he dangled by his neck from that apple tree, while the res...
