TV drama Deceit tells story of WPC told to seduce Rachel Nickell’s ‘killer’ and how it left her traumatised
THE shocking murder of Rachel Nickell – stabbed 49 times while holding her two-year-old son – prompted a public outcry that saw cops use extreme measures to try to catch her killer. Police used a female undercover officer, codenamed Lizzie James, to try to make prime suspect Colin Stagg fall for her and admit to attacking the young mum on Wimbledon Common, South London in 1992.