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 paranoid schizophrenic Robert Napper, 42, admitted manslaughter. Rachel was a pupil at Great Totham Primary School, before going on to Colchester County High School for Girls after passing her 11-plus exam.
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 paranoid schizophrenic Robert Napper, 42, admitted manslaughter. Rachel was a pupil at Great Totham Primary School, before going on to Colchester County High School for Girls after passing her 11-plus exam.
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