A police officer is standing beside a body, dumped in a graveyard and poorly covered in overturned soil. “It doesn’t get any easier, turning up to the murder of yet another young woman,” he says. “Knowing there’ll be another one, and another one. I don’t have the words for it any more.”
If you’re used to crime dramas as escapism, this is the moment when ITV’s new miniseries reaches out through the telly and forces you to look at real life. “It gave me a chill even when you said it,” says the programme’s star Aidan Turner.