The Pembrokeshire Murders viewers react to John Cooper being caught thanks to TV s Bullseye
The ITV drama featured the footage with some alterations to include actor Keith Allen
Keith Allen as John Cooper when he appeared on TV show Bullseye (Image: ITV)
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ITV’s true crime drama The Pembrokeshire Murders is a story of meticulousness and hard work Its excitements lay not in revisiting John Cooper’s inexplicably horrible crimes, but in building a case, bit by bit, against the clock. True crime can be so cheap: voyeuristic, cruel and ultimately futile. Some things are beyond comprehension, no matter what those involved might say about the need for understanding (we all know they’re really only in the business of entertainment). But still, such shows keep coming – possibly because people keep watching them. Last year brought us dramas about Jeremy Bamber and Dennis Nilsen. This spring, Olivia Colman will play Susan Edwards, who, with her husband, murdered her parents and buried their bodies in their Mansfield garden; and Stephen Merchant will take on the role of Stephen Port, who drugged, raped and killed four men in east London between 2014 and 2015.
Viewers of The Pembrokeshire Murders last night were left shocked by the chilling cliffhanger as the serial killer s lies to the police were exposed by his past appearance on Bullseye.
The three-part ITV drama sees Hollywood actor Luke Evans play Detective Superintendent Steve Wilkins, who in 2006 led a review of two brutal unsolved double murder cases from two decades earlier.
Siblings Richard and Helen Thomas were found dead at their farmhouse in Wales in 1985, and the bodies of Peter and Gwenda Dixon were found by the Pembrokeshire coastal path four years later, but the killer John Cooper was not brought to justice until 2011.