"Who played Alex Jeffreys, the discoverer of genetic fingerprinting, in the recent ITV drama ""The Code of a Killer"", the story of the first murderer convicted by DNA?"
Colin Pitchfork be eligible for parole again in 2020. In November 2018, Colin Pitchfork was spotted walking around Bristol, so it has been assumed that he was moved to HM Prison Leyhill. In 2014, ITV commissioned a two-part television drama, "Code of a Killer", based on Pitchfork's crimes and the creation of DNA profiling. It starred John Simm as researcher Alec Jeffreys and David Threlfall as David Baker, the lead police detective. Pitchfork was played by Nathan Wright. The drama was the first broadcast in two 90-minute episodes, on 6 and 13 April 2015. It was subsequently reformatted as three episodes and
Code of a Killer Code of a Killer Code of a Killer is a two-part British police drama television series which tells the true story of Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its introductory use by Detective David Baker in catching the double murderer Colin Pitchfork. Filming commenced in late September 2014, and the program aired on the ITV network, on 6 and 13 April 2015. Endemol Shine handled international distribution of the series. "The Blooding: The True Story of the Narborough Village Murders" (1989), written by Joseph Wambaugh, is a non-fiction account of this event. Set in 1984, DCS David Baker leads