Believe Me review: Jeff Pope delivers another powerful, unflinching drama
A star rating of 4 out of 5. It’s the early hours of the morning. A young woman takes a black cab home after a night out in London. The seemingly friendly driver tells her he’s had a win at the casino and invites her to celebrate with him. Insisting she has a drink, which he provides, the female passenger accepts it out of politeness. Unbeknown to her she has been drugged, and she slips into unconsciousness. The following morning, horrifying details of how the driver sexually assaulted her start to come back. This was the ordeal endured by the numerous victims of prolific sex attacker John Worboys, who is played with nuanced menace by Daniel Mays in Believe Me – ITV’s unflinching four-part true-crime dramatisation of the case. Dubbed “the black cab rapist”, Worboys preyed on vulnerable women for years using the same twisted modus operandi. But his crimes went undetected for far too long. Writer Jeff Pope’s shocking articulation of the story tells how the system drastically failed Worboys’s victims, who felt the …




