RILLINGTON PLACE
Tim Roth, Samantha Morton star in a chilling three-part drama, based on the real-life multiple murders carried out by John Christie in Notting Hill in the 1940’s and 50’s.
The subsequent tragic miscarriage of justice, which led to Timothy Evans being hanged for a crime he did not commit, contributed towards the abolition of capital punishment in Britain.
Presenting each episode from the separate viewpoints of Ethel, Timothy and finally Christie, writers Ed Whitmore and Tracey Malone drew on original source material in the National Archives, alongside new interviews with surviving relatives, to retrace the steps that led Timothy to be accused of murder whilst Christie went unchallenged until his arrest in 1953.