"I trust you, Mr Christie, of course I do."
The illiterate Timothy Evans (John Hurt) moves his family to London seeking work and rents a room from the respected John Christie (Richard Attenborough). When Evans wife falls pregnant Timothy turns to Christie for help. Christie is only too obliging, performing an abortion on her, but she dies, and Evans gets the blame and is convicted of the capital crime and hung. What the world does not know is that Christie far from being an upstanding gent, is actually a serial killer...
Dramatisation of the real-life serial killer, and how he managed to avoid justice for so long and his contribution to the miscarriage of justice that Timothy Evans suffered. Hurt is wonderful as the gullible Evans, and Attenborough is a chilling Christie.
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