The Murder of Rachel Nickell

“The killer walked free for 15 years while the Met chased the wrong man.”
A sober, methodical look at the 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in front of her two-year-old son, and the catastrophic police investigation that followed — including the honeytrap operation against Colin Stagg and the fifteen years it took to correctly identify Robert Napper as the killer.
This is true crime done properly: no smirking narrator, no true-crime-podcast affect, just clear-eyed accountability for a case that ruined multiple lives beyond the victim's. André Hanscombe's contributions are heartbreaking, and the film treats Colin Stagg's ordeal with the seriousness it deserves. Essential viewing.
The verdict
7/10