ITV’s new drama Consider Me tells the story of John Worboys and his victims
Consider Me is coming to ITV (Picture: ITV)
Broadcaster ITV has unveiled a primary glimpse at its new true crime drama Consider Me.
Shot in Cardiff, the four-part sequence options Miriam Petche from Business and chronicles the case of John Worboys – who grew to become referred to as the ‘black cab rapist’ after concentrating on girls while posing as a licensed taxi driver.
He was convicted in 2009 for offences together with sexual assault and drugging with intent towards 12 girls.
His methodology concerned claiming he’d loved a win at a on line casino or on the lottery, then providing girls he’d collected in his cab following an evening out a glass of champagne, which he’d spiked with medicine, rendering his victims unconscious.
ITV stated the drama “tells the story of how the victims of one of the crucial prolific intercourse attackers in British historical past had been failed by the system”, stories the Mirror.
The sequence centres on the expertise of Sarah (performed by Peaky Blinders’ Aimée-Ffion Edwards) and Laila (performed by Raised By Wolves’ Aasiya Shah), who reported sexual assaults by Worboys (Daniel Mays), and the way their allegations weren’t correctly investigated.
Sarah and Laila – each pseudonyms – joined forces with solicitor Harriet Wistrich, performed by Philippa Dunne and barrister Phillippa Kaufmann QC, performed by Rachael Stirling, to sue the Metropolitan Police underneath the Human Rights Act for his or her failure to correctly conduct investigations into their allegations of sexual assault, resulting in their being subjected to degrading remedy and contributing to their misery.
They received, and when the Met appealed that judgment to the Supreme Court docket, they received once more.
As these girls fought to have their circumstances heard, looming within the background was Worboys’ first parole listening to. Eight years after he was convicted for his crimes, his victims needed to battle once more to maintain him behind bars.
Sarah, Laila, Harriet and Phillippa had been joined by Carrie Symonds (performed by Business’s Miriam Petche), a senior determine within the Conservative Get together press workforce. She put her profession on the road to spearhead an enormous media and political marketing campaign pushing for an unprecedented judicial assessment of the Parole Board’s determination. The marketing campaign, with Sarah, Laila and Carrie on the forefront, was profitable, and Worboys’ parole was quashed.
Aimée-Ffion Edwards stars in Consider Me (Picture: ITV)
Sarah, whose identification has been protected, said: “Consider Me is concerning the braveness of each girl who got here ahead to assist put John Worboys behind bars.
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“What occurred to me modified my life, however in some ways the toughest half was not being believed for therefore a few years. With out the individuals who stood by me, Worboys would have been freed and continued to pose an enormous threat to girls. In search of justice should not imply extra trauma. We should not need to battle to be believed or really feel like we are the ones on trial. The disgrace by no means belongs to the survivor.”
Consider Me is about to air on ITV
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