37/13
He attacked her before escaping capture
Story
Delia Balmer, an agency nurse, met Sweeney, who confessed to killing his ex-girlfriend.
Based on a true crime story
Balmer rebuilt her life to confront Sweeney seven years later after he was arrested for another murder.
The bodies were dumped in canals in Rotterdam (not Amsterdam) and London
One of those shows where you’re left with a mix of “Surely it couldn’t have happened like that!” and “How on earth can people be so incompetent?” But it’s a true story, and from what we know of other cases, the failures of the police and the demands of the criminal justice system have harmed far too many victims – and that was Delia’s case.
Anne Maxwell Martin plays Delia with an extraordinary intensity that rarely makes her easy to like: merciless, mercurial and unpredictable
Shaun Evans is truly frightening, as the quiet and self-righteous shy man Deliameets in a pub and becomes an angry and violent narcissist with a dark, dark past.
