Line of Duty: The true story of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia whose murder inspired Gail Vella
Updated: Apr 6 2021, 12:55 ET
LINE of Duty fans love to be kept guessing — but this week some viewers got their theory confirmed by the gaffer himself.
Jed Mercurio, who writes the hit show, revealed that fictional character Gail Vella was indeed based on Daphne Caruana Galizia's chilling murder, and the clues had been hiding in plain sight.
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Daphne Caruana Galizia was 53 when she was murdered with a car bomb in Malta in 2017Credit: Reuters
One Twitter user asked Mercurio directly about the similarities between the fictional case of Vella and the real murder of Caruana Galizia.