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<\/p>\nITV have commissioned a four-part true crime drama,\u00a0Believe Me, written by BAFTA and RTS award winning screenwriter Jeff Pope MBE, and produced by his production company, Etta Pictures, part of ITV Studios.<\/p>\n
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Believe Me\u00a0tells the story of three victims of one of the most prolific sex attackers in British history, John Worboys, dubbed by the media as the \u2018black cab rapist\u2019 after preying on women under the cover of being a \u2018respectable\u2019 licensed taxi-cab driver.<\/p>\n
Aim\u00e9e-Ffion Edwards (Slow Horses, Peaky Blinders, Dreamland, Mr Burton) Miriam Petche (Industry) and Aasiya Shah (Raised by Wolves, Bloods, The Beast Must Die) play the women Worboys sexually assaulted.\u00a0 Daniel Mays takes the role of John Worboys (Des, A Thousand Blows, The Long Shadow, Moonflower Murders).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The drama will be filmed in Cardiff and is produced with the support of the Welsh Government via Creative Wales.<\/p>\n
John Worboys was convicted in 2009 for sexually assaulting twelve women between 2006 and 2008, with their cases selected from a large number of suspected further victims.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
His modus operandi was to claim that he\u2019d had a win at a casino or on the lottery, then persistently offer women he\u2019d picked up in his cab after a night out a glass of champagne, which he\u2019d laced with drugs, and which rendered his victims unconscious.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The drama focuses on the ordeal of two of the women who reported sexual assaults by Worboys, and how the Metropolitan Police failed to thoroughly investigate these women\u2019s allegations, leading them to feel that they were just not believed.<\/p>\n
Believe Me\u00a0will relate how this left Worboys free to commit assaults undetected for many years.\u00a0 Following his trial came the realisation that he was linked to allegations of further sexual offences against over a hundred women.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The two women then\u00a0joined forces with solicitor Harriet Wistrich and Phillippa Kaufmann QC, and decided to sue the Metropolitan Police under the Human Rights Act for their failure to properly conduct investigations into their allegations of sexual assault, leading to them being subjected to degrading\u00a0treatment and contributing to their distress.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The drama highlights how these women fought against all odds to have their cases heard, whilst looming in the background was Worboys\u2019 first parole hearing. Unbelievably, eight years after he was convicted for his crimes, his victims were made to fight again to keep him behind bars.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Academy Award nominated and BAFTA and RTS award winning screenwriter Jeff Pope is no stranger to true crime drama having recently written\u00a0Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes\u00a0and previously being known for\u00a0The Walk In, Hatton Garden, A Confession, Little Boy Blue, Mrs Biggs and Lucan\u00a0and was also Executive Producer for\u00a0The\u00a0Reckoning\u00a0and\u00a0Appropriate Adult\u00a0(both written by Neil McKay).<\/p>\n
Jeff will executive produce the drama alongside Saurabh Kakkar on behalf of Etta Pictures.\u00a0 Julia Ford (Until I Kill You, Showtrial, Unforgiveable) will direct the series.\u00a0Catrin Lewis Defis (The Winter King, Hollington Drive, The Pact) will produce the series.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0Commented Jeff Pope:\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe series goes on an emotional journey with the victims of Worboys\u2019 attacks, showing what happened to them when they reported being raped and assaulted, the pain and indignity of the process and how this de-humanised them. But most shocking of all is how they felt that not being believed by the police and having the attacks recorded, essentially, as non-crimes, was as traumatising for them as the actual assaults.\u201d<\/p>\n
Polly Hill will oversee production of the drama from the broadcaster\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n
Commented Polly Hill:\u00a0 \u201cWe are really proud to be working with Jeff Pope to bring this important story to screen. For too long the women were not heard by the police, resulting in more victims and ultimately resulting in a landmark case brought against the Met.\u00a0 Jeff\u2019s scripts as always are brilliant in bringing this difficult but important story to screen and I am delighted that Julia Ford will be directing the piece.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The drama will air on ITV1 and STV and be available for streaming on ITVX and STV Player.<\/p>\n
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