Her face etched with despair, the anguished officer stumbles into the sea as the burden of her role in the investigation into the killing of Rachel Nickell bears down on her.
These exclusive photographs were captured on the set of a forthcoming Channel 4 drama that will detail how an undercover officer – known only by the codename Lizzie James – befriended the main suspect to entice him into a ‘confession’.
For five months, Lizzie, played by Irish actress Niamh Algar, 28, called and wrote to the innocent loner Colin Stagg, even dangling the possibility of sex as bait.
These exclusive images from a Channel 4 drama concerning the attempt to frame Colin Stagg for the murder of Rachel Nickel who was killed on Wimbledon Common in London in July 1992