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The Rachel Nickell murder documentary

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JdotJ Thu 04-Sept-25 14:39:52

I remember we were on holiday in Dorset when this happened and seeing it on the front pages of the tabloids in a little newsagent near our holiday let.

Dreadful

Dee1012 Thu 04-Sept-25 14:26:18

silverlining48

There seems to be so much about real life murders, mostly of you women, on tv lately. Some are very recent.
I can’t imagine how the families of these victims must feel and wonder if permission has been sought from them.

I've posted before that my work is in Criminal Justice and sadly, I'm often in contact with victims of serious crimes - often quite widely known, usually locally but a number of times nationally.

While some people have never talked about it with me, a lot have often been angry and distressed about social media postings, YouTube video's etc that are in the public domain and will discuss the crime / victim etc.
Very few have ever been asked.

silverlining48 Thu 04-Sept-25 12:45:09

Young not you

silverlining48 Thu 04-Sept-25 12:44:42

There seems to be so much about real life murders, mostly of you women, on tv lately. Some are very recent.
I can’t imagine how the families of these victims must feel and wonder if permission has been sought from them.

Galaxy Thu 04-Sept-25 12:41:59

It was a terrible case but there were serious issues with police behaviour in that case. Some of the strategies used with regard to the initial suspect ( Colin Stagg) was questionable to say the least.

Granatlast007 Thu 04-Sept-25 12:33:36

Has anyone watched this?

www.channel5.com/show/written-in-blood/season-1/the-rachel-nickell-murder

I was living in South West London when the murder happened on Wimbledon Common in July 1992. This documentary has so much extra detail and shows the inability of the police at the time to tie up random bits of evidence and identify the killer. The point is well made that it is now so much easier for the police to identify criminals.
The documentary covers the years right up to 2015 showing that the eventual convicted killer, Robert Napper was actually a serial rapist and murderer and killed numerous women and raped many others. He is in Broadmoor for life.

Quite chilling but worth watching.