ITV Unveils First Look at Believe Me, Four-Part Drama on John Worboys Case

Overview

• ITV released first-look images for Believe Me and said the four-part drama will air this spring on ITV1 and ITVX.
• Daniel Mays plays John Worboys, with Aimée-Ffion Edwards and Aasiya Shah as victims Sarah and Laila, and Miriam Petche as Carrie Symonds/Johnson; filming took place in Cardiff.
• The narrative follows Sarah and Laila’s Human Rights Act lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police over failures to properly investigate their allegations.
• The women won at trial and again when the Met appealed to the Supreme Court, then joined a campaign that led to Worboys’ parole being quashed.
• Carrie Johnson and survivor Sarah called the drama a wake-up call for the police, CPS, and Parole Board; Worboys was convicted in 2009 and again in 2019.