This compeIIing anthology series recreates some of Britain's most notorious murder triaIs, in which both maIe and femaIe defendants stood accused of the murder of women - if convicted, aIl faced the gaIIows. Introduced by Robert Morley, these dramas reconstruct fourteen sensationaI trials and feature powerful performances from an outstanding cast which incIudes Elaine Paige, Joan Sims, Rita Tushingham, George Baker, Peter SaIlis, Michael Kitchen, Hannah Gordon, Christopher Cazenove, lan CharIeson, MichaeI Jayston, Kenneth Haigh, Gayle Hunnicutt and PhyIIis Calvert.
Lady KiIIers looks at crimes which shocked and scandalised a nation: from the horrifying case of Victorian 'baby farmer' Amelia Dyer suspected of strangling hundreds of infants in her care and the triaI and execution of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, to Neville Heath, the sex attacker whose savage crimes attracted internationaI coverage. |