Aimée-Ffion Edwards Interview on Police
If you wonder where the title of new ITV drama Believe Me comes from, you just need to know this: the four-part drama, written and executive produced by Jeff Pope (Philomena, Stan & Ollie, Cilla) and premiering on Sunday, May 10, tells the harrowing story of two women, portrayed by Aimée-Ffion Edwards (Slow Horses, Peaky Blinders, Mr Burton) and Aasiya Shah (Raised by Wolves, Bloods, The Beast Must Die), who reported assaults by a taxi driver. That driver turned out to be “one of the most prolific sex attackers in British history,” but the women “were failed by the system,” specifically London’s Metropolitan Police, or Scotland Yard. The women suffered the indignity of multiple interviews, intimate evidence gathering and skeptical lines of questioning from the police, among other things. Miriam Petche (Industry) also features in the series as a woman who got away, but is also struggling with the aftermath of an encounter with the driver. Daniel Mays (Line of Duty, Des, A Thousand Blows, Moonflower Murders) plays the attacker, John Worboys, who became known in the U.K. as the “Black …
