Claudie Blakley as Louise Sutton, Colin's wife and a Surrey police analyst. The series is written by screenwriter Ed Whitmore, based on the memoirs of real-life former Met police detective DCI Colin Sutton. On 6 March 2019, the show was renewed for a second series to premiere in 2020. Series Start date End date. Jan 07, 2019 But who is detective Colin Sutton and how did he catch Levi Bellfield? Manhunt is based on the memoirs of former DCI Colin Sutton, who worked closely with ITV on the series. My wife says.
- Not to be confused with the former detective chief inspector who investigated the Levi Bellfield and Delroy Grant cases.
Colin Bertie John SuttonQPM (6 December 1938 – 26 March 2004) was a British police officer.
Sutton was educated at King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon. In 1957 he joined Warwickshire Constabulary as a Constable. He was promoted Sergeant in 1964, Inspector in 1966, Chief Inspector in 1970, Superintendent in 1972, and Chief Superintendent in 1974. Later that year he transferred to West Midlands Police. In 1977 he was appointed Assistant Chief Constable with Leicestershire Constabulary. He obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from University College, London in 1970.
In 1983, Sutton moved to the Metropolitan Police as a Deputy Assistant Commissioner. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner 'B' (Traffic) in 1984.[1] He was to be the last officer to hold this post, as the Metropolitan Police was reorganised in 1985. He then became Assistant Commissioner Management Support, and in 1987 was appointed Assistant Commissioner Personnel and Training. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in 1985. In 1988 he became Director of the Police Requirements Support Unit at the Home Office and in 1991 Director of the Police Scientific Development Branch, also at the Home Office. He retired in 1993.
Footnotes[edit]
- ^'Provincial policemen join Yard's top ranks', The Times, 18 August 1984
References[edit]
- Biography, Who Was Who
Police appointments | ||
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Preceded by John Dellow | Assistant Commissioner 'B', Metropolitan Police 1984–1985 | Succeeded by Last incumbent |
Preceded by First incumbent | Assistant Commissioner (Management Support), Metropolitan Police 1985–1987 | Succeeded by John Smith |
Preceded by Hugh Annesley | Assistant Commissioner (Personnel and Training), Metropolitan Police 1987–1988 | Succeeded by Wyn Jones |
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Manhunt | |
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Genre | |
Written by | Colin Sutton Ed Whitmore |
Directed by | Marc Evans |
Starring |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of episodes | 3 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Phillippa Braithwaite |
Producer(s) | Jo Willett |
Production location(s) | United Kingdom |
Cinematography | Baz Irvine |
Running time | 46 minutes |
Production company(s) | ITV Studios |
Distributor | UK: ITV US: Acorn TV |
Release | |
Original network | ITV |
Picture format | 16:9 |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | 6 January 2019 – present |
Manhunt is a British television drama based on the true story surrounding the investigation into the death of French student Amélie Delagrange. The subsequent manhunt eventually led to the arrest of Levi Bellfield for Delagrange's murder, and several other high profile, yet previously unsolved cases.[1][2][3] On 6 March 2019, the show was renewed for a second series to premiere in 2020.
Plot[edit]
On the evening of 19 August 2004, a young woman has been attacked on Twickenham Green, in the south-west of Greater London. The victim, identified as Amélie Delagrange, is a 22-year-old French student visiting the UK. She dies in hospital from serious head injuries.
Metropolitan Police select Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton to lead a large task force as Senior Investigating Officer. No forensic evidence can be procured from the scene, and there are no links in Delagrange's past that could indicate a motive. There have been several previous attacks and murders of young women in the area, and within 24 hours, the investigation establishes that she might have been killed by the same person who killed Marsha McDonnell on 3 February 2003.
Cell tower data indicates Delagrange's phone last made contact to the network in an area close by the river, several miles from the green where she was found. Despite pressure to send divers elsewhere, Sutton insists on dredging the river (Thames) by the nearest car crossing, Walton Bridge, and finally finds the phone and other items owned by the victim. Again resisting doubts, this time from within his own team, Sutton decides to employ a significant portion of his team to survey CCTV footage from the night of the attack. A suspicious white van moving around at the time of the attack is found, but it cannot be readily identified since there are over 25,000 similar vans in the UK.
When Sutton prioritizes the case over his personal life, missing out on vacations and birthdays, he and his wife Louise argue over possible links to a similar case involving the murder of Milly Dowler, a 13-year-old girl in Surrey, where Louise works as a police analyst. She reveals that her superiors, aware of her link to Sutton, have forbidden her to discuss that case with him.
A WPC who attended the initial crime scene reminds Sutton about a witness report of the day, leading him to a possible suspect named Levi Bellfield, a self-employed a vehicle clamping operator. He is known to be violent, and very aggressive to the numerous women in his life; and that he owns several vehicles, including a white van.
Sutton scales back a nationwide search for the van, and instead mounts a comprehensive surveillance operation on Bellfield. It soon becomes clear he actively approaches girls and young women, scaring them. The team learns that he once owned a white people-mover of a similar description to one used to run over and nearly kill a young woman, named Kate Sheedy. They also learn he once lived very close to the site of the Surrey murder. It becomes clear to Sutton that Bellfield is not only their man, but that he is likely to strike again.
A large operation is drawn up to facilitate Bellfield's arrest and at the same time to strike at the addresses of known associates to prevent the loss of possible forensic evidence. A leak to the press alerts the News of the World, a large sensationalist tabloid in the UK, which plans to run a story of the impending operation well before Sutton and his team are ready. To to make News of the World postpone its story, the investigating team agree to let a journalist and photographer join the operation to get first-hand access to the bust.
At first, it seems Bellfield has given them the slip, but his current partner Laura Marsh soon reveals he is hiding in the attic, and he is safely apprehended. This gives Sutton and his team just 72 hours before they must charge him with a crime or set him free. With insufficient evidence to link Bellfield to the vehicles used in the various murders at specific times and places, they enlist the cooperation of Marsh to detain Bellfield on a charge of assaulting and raping her, giving them time to keep building their murder charge. At his sentencing hearing, Bellfield displays his violent temper when he learns he will be incarcerated at Milton Keynes, located well outside London.
Finally receiving the support of investigators working on the Milly Dowler case, the team find CCTV evidence tying Bellfield to that case, evidence that had heretofore been overlooked. Realizing that Amélie Delagrange might not have been murdered, had the evidence been found earlier, Sutton travels to France to apologize to her parents.
Finally, again with Laura Marsh's assistance, the investigators find a supermarket receipt that backs up her story about Bellfield being alone in their previous house, very close to the site of the Milly Dowler murder, on the very day of that crime. The series ends with the prosecutor finally being satisfied by the available evidence and deciding to charge Bellfield with the murders of Delagrange and Marsha McDonnell, as well as the hit-and-run of Kate Sheedy.
An ending note informs the viewer that on 25 February 2008 Levi Bellfield was convicted of the murders of Marsha McDonnell and Amélie Delagrange and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, and sentenced to three life sentences with a recommendation to never be released from prison. Furthermore, that on 23 June 2011, Bellfield was found guilty of the murder of Milly Dowler, and sentenced to a second life imprisonment.
Cast[edit]
- Martin Clunes as Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton, Senior Investigating Officer for the case
- Stephen Wight as Detective Constable Clive Grace
- Katie Lyons as Detective Sergeant Jo Brunt, DCI Sutton's aide-de-camp
- Steffan Rhodri as DCI Neil Jones
- Claudie Blakley as Louise Sutton, Colin's wife and a Surrey police analyst
- Kiera Bell as Amélie Delagrange
- Hannah Banks as Marsha McDonnell
Development[edit]
The series is written by screenwriter Ed Whitmore, based on the memoirs of real-life former Met police detective DCI Colin Sutton.[4]
On 6 March 2019, the show was renewed for a second series to premiere in 2020.[5]
Transmissions[edit]
Series | Start date | End date | Episodes | Average viewers (millions) |
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1 | 6 January 2019 | 8 January 2019 | 3 | 9.69 |
Reception[edit]
British newspapers posted reviews after the first episode. The Guardian praised the scripting together with the 'fine work...fleetness and lightness of touch' of Clunes's performance.[6] Meanwhile, The Independent characterized it as 'competently if unimaginatively made', and as 'an exploitative theme-park ride through one of the biggest tabloid stories of the millennium'.[7]
US media reviewed the series in its entirety a month later. Hollywood Reporter has this to say: 'In Manhunt, there's something likably precise in the old-school focus on how much boring paperwork, staff-wide effort and luck goes into piecing together a complex case,' and considers it 'keenly British'.[8]
References[edit]
- ^Clarke, Stewart; Clarke, Stewart (2019-01-07). 'ITV's Martin Clunes Crime Drama 'Manhunt' Scores International Deals'. Variety. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
- ^Turner, Lauren (2019-01-07). 'The real story being told in Manhunt'. BBC News. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
- ^'What is new ITV crime drama Manhunt about, and when is it on TV?'. Radio Times. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
- ^https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-04-04/manhunt-itv-air-date-time-channel-new-crime-drama-itv-martin-clunes/
- ^''Manhunt' Renewed For Season 2 On ITV'. RenewCancelTV.com. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- ^Mangan Lucy. 'Manhunt review–a sober, responsible drama about the murder of three young females by Levi Bellfield'
- ^https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/manhunt-itv-review-cast-director-martin-clunes-colin-sutton-levi-bellfield-a8711426.html
- ^https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/manhunt-review-1193664
External links[edit]
- Manhunt on IMDb
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