Code of a Killer

Season 1

The story of Sir Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its first use by DCS David Baker in catching a double murderer.

2 Episodes

  • Episode 1
    E1
    Episode 1In 1983, in a village outside Leicester, Lynda Mann is found raped and strangled to death. A year on, after an exhaustive but fruitless search for the killer, DCS David Baker is forced to scale down the investigation.
  • Episode 2
    E2
    Episode 2With plenty of publicity, the local teenager is released and the world is introduced to DNA fingerprinting for the first time. In the villages of Narborough and Enderby there is a complete sense of fear that a murderer is living amongst them.

Cast of Season 1

  • David ThrelfallDCS David Baker
  • John SimmAlec Jeffreys
  • Anna MadeleySue Jeffreys
  • Andrew TiernanDS Geoff Taylor
  • Lorcan CranitchDI Alan Madden
  • Dorothy AtkinsonBarbara Ashworth
  • Neil EdmondRobin Ashworth
  • Hannah WaltersKath Eastwood
  • Ged SimmonsEddie Eastwood
  • Lydia Rose BewleyVicky Wilson
  • Jaz DeolDC Taran Kholi
  • Adam NagaitisIan Whenby
  • Robert GlenisterDCC Chapman
  • Siobhan RedmondJoy Blakefield
  • Sarah Andre WhiteLiz Pascoe
  • Esther ColesMrs Pascoe
  • Rakie AyolaHelena Adarkwa
  • Paul CopleySidney Jeffreys
  • Jessica HargreavesLinda Mann
  • Tobias Burton-RudgeGavin Hopkirk
  • Paul LancasterPeter Gill
  • Katie LightfootSheona York
  • Becci GemmellJackie Foggin
  • Emma LundyDawn Ashworth
  • Farzana Dua ElaheTania Patel
  • James StrongDirector
  • Michael CromptonWriter
  • Priscilla ParishProducer

 

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