Rick Vick obituary

My best friend, Rick Vick, who has died aged 71, was known as “the Poet of Stroud”. He was a writer who became a teacher in prisons and rehab centres in Gloucestershire. He contributed to the research and writing on my recent film, Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, as well as editing Tracking Down Maggie and Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer.

Rick, the son of Richard Vick, a high court judge, and his wife, Judy (nee Warren), a property developer, attended Oakham public school in Rutland.