ITV was final evening accused of ‘merciless abuse’ over plans to display a drama about killer Jane Andrews, the Duchess of York’s former aide.
Rick Cressman, whose brother Thomas was overwhelmed with a cricket bat by Andrews as he slept earlier than she stabbed him within the chest in 2000, says his household are approaching Christmas in a temper of despair after studying of the plans.
‘I bought one week’s discover,’ Mr Cressman, 73, instructed the Each day Mail, saying that this was ‘the ninth or tenth manufacturing’ about his brother’s deadly relationship with Andrews, who labored as a dresser for Fergie.
‘It feels that Tommy can by no means relaxation in peace,’ he stated, including that earlier programmes had been documentaries purporting to painting the reality.
‘It’s a really merciless factor that ITV have commissioned a drama about it,’ he stated. ‘It provides [the film-makers] licence to say or do something they like – true or not. It’s an abuse of my household. My mom’s now 97.’
There’s additionally a a lot youthful era to contemplate.
‘Now we have grandchildren now, of 9 and ten,’ he stated. ‘They’ll be uncovered to it in school.’
Hotelier Mr Cressman claims that the four-part dramatisation, entitled The Girl, is an ‘out-and-out try and profiteer’ from the demise of his brother, who was murdered by Andrews at their dwelling in Fulham, west London, after he refused to marry her.
ITV was accused of ‘merciless abuse’ over its plans to display a drama a few killer aide of the Duchess of York (pictured)
Rick Cressman (pictured), whose brother Thomas was overwhelmed with a cricket bat by Jane Andrews, says his household are in despair over the plans
He has contacted his MP about his considerations, and hopes to satisfy the Justice Secretary ‘as quickly as doable’.
Some film-makers, he added, had been scrupulous in listening to the household – and together with their recollections of Thomas, however others seem merely to have gone by the motions, together with one who interviewed Rick’s son David.
‘David was there, with my brother Tommy, for the ultimate week of his life, with Jane Andrews, within the south of France. He even went out to Good airport with them earlier than they flew again to England.’
Inside 36 hours of their return, Thomas, 39, was lifeless. ‘David should have carried out about two hours of interview. Each single phrase was left on the cutting-room ground.’
That programme, provides Mr Cressman, was additionally for ITV, which has commissioned Left Financial institution Footage to make The Girl subsequent 12 months.
Left Financial institution Footage is the corporate which produced The Crown – compelling drama which performed quick and free with the reality.
Understandably, it doesn’t fill Mr Cressman with confidence. However he hopes that Left Financial institution will seek the advice of him and different family members, and in addition heed the phrases of Jim Dickie, who headed the police investigation.
After Andrews had repeatedly lied in courtroom, Mr Dickie stated: ‘She murdered him in actual life, after which tried to homicide him in demise by attempting to wreck his repute’.
Andrews, now 57, was sentenced to life imprisonment; she was launched in 2015.
Andrews, now 57, was sentenced to life imprisonment and was launched in 2015
Thomas Cressman. Whereas some filmmakers had been scrupulous in listening to the familly, ncluding their recollections of Thomas, others seem merely to have gone by the motions
Basia Briggs, a good friend of Prince Michael of Kent, instructed the Each day Mail: ‘I’m appalled, because it’s inappropriate to make use of this dreadful tragedy for folks’s leisure.’ Andrews stayed at Mrs Briggs’ dwelling in Chelsea, west London, throughout her Outdated Bailey trial, at her lawyer’s request.
The drama is because of be filmed in Grimsby and London. It’ll chart the rise and fall of Andrews, who landed the royal function after answering an advert in The Girl journal.
Left Financial institution producer Sian McWilliams stated: ‘The Girl deftly explores the tragic collection of occasions and poses the query – who’s the actual Jane Andrews?’
ITV didn’t reply to requests for remark.
