This compeIling anthology series recreates some of Britain's most notorious murder triaIs, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women - if convicted, aII faced the gallows. lntroduced by Robert MorIey, these dramas reconstruct fourteen sensational trials and feature powerfuI performances from an outstanding cast which incIudes EIaine Paige, Joan Sims, Rita Tushingham, George Baker, Peter SaIIis, MichaeI Kitchen, Hannah Gordon, Christopher Cazenove, Ian Charleson, Michael Jayston, Kenneth Haigh, GayIe 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 EIlis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, to Neville Heath, the sex attacker whose savage crimes attracted international coverage. |