Death on the Common: Channel 4 documentary about Rachel Nickell who was killed on Wimbledon Common in 1992
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In the desperate hunt to find Nickell’s killer, London’s Metropolitan Police quickly homed in on a man named Colin Stagg who was known to walk his dog on the Common. Metropolitan Police handout custody photo of Robert Napper taken in 1992 In a bungled police investigation code-named Operation Ezdell, an undercover officer going by the pseudonym “Lizzie James” was brought in to see if she could elicit a confession from Stagg. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free Stagg was charged with the murder but the trial against him later collapsed when a judge condemned the police for the “honey trap” undercover operation.
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