Deceit
Created by Emilia di Girolamo
On Channel 4
A dark, morally complex true-crime drama examining institutional corruption and sexual exploitation at the heart of a 1992 murder investigation.
The true story of a controversial honeytrap at the heart of the 1992 police investigation into the murder of a young mother in London. Examining the complicated and toxic sexual politics of the early ‘90s and the police’s obsession with the wrong man, Deceit enters a dysfunctional world, where a female undercover officer, codename ‘Lizzie James’, is asked to become sexual bait for a suspected killer.
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