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Channel 4s Deceit follows the real-life murder of Rachel Nickell, but what happened to Colin Stagg in real life and where is he now?

The true story of Robert Napper, who is depicted in Channel 4 drama Deceit.

A GRIPPING television series examining a controversial honeytrap set up to catch the suspect of a Colchester murder investigation will soon be hitting our screens. Deceit, a Channel 4 drama produced by Story Films and written by Emilia di Girolamo, first started filming last December and is expected to be broadcast sometime within the coming months. The four-part series has been directed by BAFTA award-winning director Niall MacCormick and boasts an assemble cast of familiar faces. Niam...

Broadmoor staff have revealed what its really like to work at the high-security psychiatric hospital treating the criminally insane. From a patient torturing and killing another inmate to stopping obsessive fans visiting high profile murderers with their children, mental health professionals open up about their harrowing experiences in a new Channel 5 show airing tonight at 9pm: Broadmoor: Serial Killers & High Security. Located in Crowthorne, Berkshire, Broadmoor Hospital has housed dozens of...

File photo of Rachel Nickell. Picture: PA FILMING for a drama on the investigation into the devastating murder of a former Colchester schoolgirl has begun. Rachel Nickell, 23, was stabbed 49 times and sexually assaulted in front of son Alex Hanscombe, then aged two, while walking their dog on Wimbledon Common. Alex was found by a passer-by clinging to her body, crying ‘Mummy, get up’. The 1992 attack shocked the country and was one of the UK’s most high-profile cold cases until pa...

File photo of Rachel Nickell. Picture: PA FILMING for a drama on the investigation into the devastating murder of a former Essex schoolgirl has begun. Rachel Nickell, 23, was stabbed 49 times and sexually assaulted in front of son Alex Hanscombe, then aged two, while walking their dog on Wimbledon Common. Alex was found by a passer-by clinging to her body, crying ‘Mummy, get up’. The 1992 attack shocked the country and was one of the UK’s most high-profile cold cases until paranoi...

File photo of Rachel Nickell. Picture: PA FILMING for a drama on the investigation into the devastating murder of a former Essex schoolgirl has begun. Rachel Nickell, 23, was stabbed 49 times and sexually assaulted in front of son Alex Hanscombe, then aged two, while walking their dog on Wimbledon Common. Alex was found by a passer-by clinging to her body, crying ‘Mummy, get up’. The 1992 attack shocked the country and was one of the UK’s most high-profile cold cases until paranoi...

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 wr...