The
Sex boutique in the
King’s Road in
Chelsea run by
punk fashion designers
Vivienne Westwood and
Malcolm McLaren's sold T-shirts which "featured the leather mask worn by the Cambridge Rapist". McLaren later claimed, "The Cambridge Rapist t-shirt was designed by me upon my return from managing the
New York Dolls. It was about a particular incident that occurred in the shop and worried those when they were accused of selling a
leather mask to a supposed rapist who was terrorizing the town of Cambridge. I made that upon the week of my return from NY". Cook’s exploits were also the basis of
John Burnside’s 2001 novel
The Locust Room, and have featured in
Paul Bahn’s memoir
The Cambridge Rapist - Unmasking The Beast of Bedsitland. They have also been the subject of a TV movie. Reviewing social historian
Mark Garnett’s 2007 book
From Anger to Apathy: The Story of Politics, Society and Popular Culture in Britain Since 1975, Victoria Segal noted that, "Garnett is oddly fixated on both
the Clash and the Cambridge Rapist". Cook was mentioned in a podcast episode (Minisode 150) of
My Favourite Murder 25 November 2019. Referenced, somewhat obliquely, in the lyrics of the
Pete Townshend song Street in the City from the
Rough Mix album by Townshend and
Ronnie Lane with "Did you read about the Cambridge Raper". Cook, and his crimes, are interwoven throughout the narrative of
Simon Goddard’s
Bowie Odyssey 75 to help portray the marked events taking place in 1975 England. ==See also==