The movie portrays June Gibbons and Jennifer Gibbons as fraternal or "dizygotic" twins, "non-identical twins", "dissimilar twins" or "biovular twins"; Around two in three sets of twins are fraternal. Two separate eggs (ova) are fertilised by two separate sperm, resulting in fraternal or 'dizygotic' (two-cell) twins. These babies will be no more alike than siblings born at separate times. The babies can be either the same sex or different sexes. Or the 'third-twin type' may play its part here too; Some researchers believe there may be a third type of twin, although medical opinion is still divided. It is proposed that the egg splits in two, and each half is then fertilised by a different sperm. This theory is an attempt to explain why some fraternal twins look identical: June and Jennifer were identical twins.
[1981] Both were sentenced to indefinite detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 at Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security [Mental] psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England, for arson, petty theft and vandalism; both stayed for eleven years.
The girls are watching, on the television, The Clash performing "White Riot", this concert footage is from the 30th of April 1978 "Rock Against Racism" concert where 100,000 people marched six miles from Trafalgar Square to the East End of London for an open-air concert at Victoria Park in Hackney. The concert featured The Clash, Steel Pulse, Tom Robinson Band, X-Ray Spex, Jimmy Pursey from Sham 69, Patrik Fitzgerald, The Selecter and Misty In Roots and bought about by the incessant right-wing xenophobia through Britian's political [and low]class rhetoric.
The Manic Street Preachers song, released on the 5th of July 1999,
"Tsunami" and from the album "This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours", is about the twins and has the lyric "...your only crime is silence...".