Jed Mercurio is behind a number of the UK’s most profitable dramas, and now it’s being reported that he’s creating a brand new collection based mostly on the story of the nation’s most infamous little one serial killer.
Nurse Lucy Letby was jailed for all times final yr after being convicted of murdering seven infants and making an attempt to homicide six others, all of whom the place in her care as a neonatal hospital nurse.
Now The Solar newspaper stories that Mercurio – who was a hospital physician earlier than he turned to screenwriting and beforehand created medical present Our bodies earlier than his hit exhibits Bodyguard and Line of Responsibility – is planning a brand new drama telling the surprising story. The newspaper speculates that Sophie Turner (previously of Recreation of Thrones) and Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) are each within the body for the lead position.
The Solar quotes an trade insider saying: “Jed sees this as an vital story that ought to not simply be chronicled in a drama but additionally explored.
“It goals to attempt to clarify how her crimes may have gone on for therefore lengthy and the way others — significantly [hospital paediatrician and whistleblower] Dr Jayaram — tried to behave when suspicions had been raised.
“Bagging a high-profile identify to play Letby would assist give the present the eye it deserves too, but it surely’s not a job to take frivolously.”
Letby is serving a life sentence for her crimes which passed off between June 2015 and June 2016. Suspicions had been raised following a excessive variety of toddler deaths which passed off within the neonatal unit the Countess of Chester Hospital, shortly after Letby started working within the hospital’s intensive care unit. She was arrested and charged with eight counts of homicide and ten counts of tried homicide in November 2020.
Deadline has reached out to Jed Mercurio for remark.
