🏆 Won 4 BAFTA 12 wins & 20 nominations total
The premise
The extraordinary story of Gloucester housewife Janet Leach who played a key role in the uncovering of the crimes of Fred and Rosemary West.
Horror Vault's take
Based on real events, this gripping British miniseries follows Janet Leach, an ordinary social worker thrust into one of the UK's most disturbing criminal cases when she is appointed as appropriate adult during police interviews with a notorious serial killer. What begins as a procedural duty slowly draws her into a psychologically suffocating relationship she struggles to escape. Emily Watson and Dominic West deliver commanding performances as the drama peels back the mundane exterior of monstrous crimes. It is less a sensationalist retelling than a deeply unsettling study of how evil operates up close.
Content: References To Murder And Serial Killing, Depictions Of Psychological Manipulation, Themes Of Sexual Violence And Abuse, Disturbing Subject Matter Involving Real Victims
Episode Guide
S1.E1 · Part OnePremiere8.3Sep 4, 2011 · 65 min
In February 1994 Janet Leach, a mother of five from Gloucestershire, was at home making her children’s tea when the phone rang. Janet was on an access course which when completed would enable her to train as a social worker. Janet was also
S1.E2 · Part Two8.3Sep 11, 2011 · 69 min
With Janet no longer involved in the police interviews, Fred becomes uncooperative, but he seems to open up when she is asked to return. As the police continue to search his home and remote country locations for missing victims, Fred become
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Cast
Dominic West
Fred West
Emily Watson
Janet Leach
Robert Glenister
Detective Superintendent John Bennett
Monica Dolan
Rose West
Anthony Flanagan
Mike
Samuel Roukin
Detective Constabe Darren Law
Gerard Horan
Howard Ogden
Selin Hizli
Mae West
James McArdle
Stephen West
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Detective Constable Hazel Savage
Rupert Simonian
Josh
William Atkinson
Garden Cop
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