The Long Shadow

Plot Summary

Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.

Top Cast

Michael McElhatton CC Ronald Gregory

Jack Deam DI Les Hanley

Lee Ingleby DCS Jim Hobson

Kris Hitchen DC John Nunn