![]() Monica Dolan was downright despicable as Rose West in the award-winning two-part ITV drama Appropriate Adult. The television mini-series chronicled the harrowing experiences of Janet Leach, who acted as Gloucester serial killer Fred West’s ‘appropriate adult’ during his police questioning in 1994. Shearsmith does an unnervingly good job of portraying Webster in the TV mini-series, although Webster’s surviving wife Felicity Drumm has stated that it did not truly capture the ‘charm’ Webster used to ‘dupe women’ in real life. ![]() To add insult to injury, he also attempted to claim over £1m in life insurance money. ![]() Both incidents involved drugging his wives in secret and staging their car crashes. ![]() Though not technically a ‘serial killer’, it seems highly likely that, considering the deviousness of his crimes, Malcolm Webster would have gone on to become one.īritish actor Reece Shearsmith, best known for his darkly comic performances in Inside Number 9, The League of Gentlemen and Psychoville, became Malcolm Webster before our very eyes in ITV’s three-part drama The Widower (2013).įormer nurse Webster was convicted of the murder of his first wife in Scotland in 1994, as well as the attempted murder of his second wife in 1999.
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