The Long Shadow: Inside the ITV true crime series exploring the Peter Sutcliffe serial killer case
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. There was a monster on the loose and he was walking among them.” The stories she has heard from that time, she says, reveal how “everybody’s life had to change” in response to the murders. The result is a show that “shines a light on each of the victims’ stories”, placing them at the “forefront”, says Daniel Mays, who plays Jackson’s husband Sydney. “A lot of the people who worked in West Yorkshire Police during our story were well-intentioned and didn’t mess up on purpose,” he says. They got the wrong idea about what the way to do that was.” Mays concedes that The Long Shadow is often “a difficult, harrowing watch”, but he’s hopeful that the series “will enlighten people’s minds on a case that they thought they knew about”, while Kay sees the show as “an invitation to see the world as it is today” as much as a period piece.
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