Plot

Follows the true story of a controversial honeytrap at the heart of the 1992 police investigation into the murder of a young mother in London.

Following the murder of Rachel Nickell in 1992, a female undercover police officer was deployed to obtain the evidence that would secure a conviction of the prime suspect, Colin Stagg. This would go on to become one of the most infamous entrapment cases in British law enforcement history.

This gripping nee drama examines the Honeytrap at the hart of the investigation into the murder of Rachel Nickell, a young mother, brutally attacked in front of her two-year-old son on Wimbledon Common in London in 1992. Fuelled by incessant media headlines and public interest, there is a climate of fear and a national obsession with catching the killer before he strikes again. Under enormous pressure, Criminal Profiler Paul Britton and DI Keith Pedder devise a unique and dangerous undercover operation fronted by an ambitious female officer, Sadie Byrne, tasked with forming a relationship with the prime suspect, Colin Stagg.