The extraordinary story of Gloucester housewife Janet Leach who played a key role in the uncovering of the crimes of Fred and Rosemary West.
Network
ITV1
Status
Ended
Type
Miniseries
First Aired
2011-09-04
Last Aired
2011-09-11
Dominic West
Fred West
Emily Watson
Janet Leach
Robert Glenister
Detective Superintendent John Bennett
Monica Dolan
Rose West
Anthony Flanagan
Mike
Samuel Roukin
Detective Constabe Darren Law
Gerard Horan
Howard Ogden
Selin Hizli
Mae West
James McArdle
Stephen West
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Detective Constable Hazel Savage
Rupert Simonian
Josh
William Atkinson
Garden Cop
1. Part One
65m
In February 1994 Janet Leach, a mother of five from Gloucestershire, was at home making her children’s tea when the phone rang. Janet was on an access course which when completed would enable her to train as a social worker. Janet was also on an approved list of ‘appropriate adults’, volunteers who can be asked by the police to sit in on interviews with minors or vulnerable adults in order to assist them and safeguard their rights.
2. Part Two
69m
With Janet no longer involved in the police interviews, Fred becomes uncooperative, but he seems to open up when she is asked to return. As the police continue to search his home and remote country locations for missing victims, Fred becomes preoccupied with one victim in particular - and Janet realises that she is physically similar to the missing woman. Later, Janet visits Fred in prison, hoping to persuade him to reveal more about his crimes. As she tries to convince Fred to tell the whole truth, she becomes gradually more closely involved with him - a development which proves to have shattering consequences for her.
