27/19

He attacked her before evading capture

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Delia Balmer, an agency nurse, met Sweeney, who confessed to killing his ex-girlfriend.

Based on a true crime story

Balmer rebuilt her life to confront Sweeney seven years later after he was arrested for another murder..

The bodies were dumped in canals in Rotterdam (not Amsterdam) and London

One of those shows where you hover between "Surely it couldn't have happened like that!" and "How on earth can people be so incompetent?" It's a true story, though, and from what we know of other cases, the failings of the police and the demands of the criminal justice system damaged far too many victims — which was Delia’s case.Anne Maxwell Martin plays Delia with an extraordinary intensity, rarely making it easy to like her: she is irrascible, mercurial and unpredictable.Shaun Evans is truly scary, switching from the quiet and self-effacing shy man Deliameets in a pub, to a furious and violent narcissist with a dark, dark past.A very well-written, cleverly-paced and carefully directed short series.