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Delia Balmer - Until I Kill you ITV

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dick27 · 07/11/2024 17:30

This has a thread in the telly bit but it deserves one here too. I watched it based on the 5 star Guardian Review. I didn't know the story. I'd never heard of her. I can't stop thinking about her now and what a bloody shero she is. I don't want to give spoilers but it merits a watch. It deserves awards - a shocking story incredibly well told.

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TheignT · 28/11/2024 16:48

I watched a bit of episode 1 but gave up. Maybe I should give it another go and persevere. I've got to the stage with TV or books where I don't want to waste my time on something if I don't like it.

duc748 · 28/11/2024 16:45

An excellent follow-up to the Post office story from ITV. Let's hope they maintain this standard of pertinent drama.

Justleaveitblankthen · 28/11/2024 16:42

Absolutely brilliant and binged it in two nights.

Love Shaun Evans in everything he does and very interesting portrayal as he was 'made up' to look nothing at all like the real life guy physically, but it obviously worked.

WallaceinAnderland · 28/11/2024 13:27

This story was gripping and portrayed so well by the actors. I found Shaun Evans so scary I had to switch off for a while. (I just had to keep telling myself he's just baby Morse.)

Mollyollydolly · 28/11/2024 10:09

It was a different body, the suspicious being he's killed more women than we know about.

EvilsElsasPetSnowman · 28/11/2024 01:06

Just finished this series

What I’m confused about is how come Melissa’s DNA didn’t match her family’s in the 90’s but it did in the 2000’s?!

duc748 · 23/11/2024 00:54

The ITV drama was brilliantly done, and AMM was superb, and watching the docu afterwards, and seeing the real Celia, and hearing her, well, that was great. And the shoddiness of how she (and not just her, of course) was treated shone through. Another brave woman.

stanleypops66 · 23/11/2024 00:10

Late to the thread but just watched it and Delia is my new hero. Omg how let down was she by the law. How brave was she.

What saddened me even more is that nothing has really changed from the 90's/20's in terms of supporting victims. Disgusting. Where are the lessons learnt in terms of supporting and understanding victims of male violence?

Tomorrowisyesterday · 11/11/2024 18:33

Bannedontherun · 07/11/2024 19:11

Yes it was excellent documentation of the failings of the CJS to protect her and based on a real story which is on tonight.

I've watched this too - also narrated by Anna Maxwell Martin.

YourAmplePlumPoster · 11/11/2024 17:17

Thanks so much 😊😊

MrsOvertonsWindow · 11/11/2024 17:16

YourAmplePlumPoster · 11/11/2024 17:13

Yes thank you. It was a long time ago in the bad old days when the police didnt take it seriously. He died in 2014 and I moved back here in 2002.

Flowers Flowers

YourAmplePlumPoster · 11/11/2024 17:13

Yes thank you. It was a long time ago in the bad old days when the police didnt take it seriously. He died in 2014 and I moved back here in 2002.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 11/11/2024 13:35

YourAmplePlumPoster · 11/11/2024 12:47

I've been in her situation and I moved countries, thats how bad it was. The truth is unless you have a bodyguard, if they want to kill you they will.

I hope you're now safe @YourAmplePlumPoster ?

YourAmplePlumPoster · 11/11/2024 12:47

I've been in her situation and I moved countries, thats how bad it was. The truth is unless you have a bodyguard, if they want to kill you they will.

boysmuminherts · 10/11/2024 22:27

So good. I also saw Anna Maxwell-Martin in The Constituent.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 10/11/2024 22:25

Thank you OP. I've watched this today - tough viewing but what a great complex performance by Anna Maxwell Martin.
I do hope that Delia Balmer is "pleased" *for want of a better phrase) with how her ordeal was portrayed.

JenniferBooth · 10/11/2024 14:50

YourAmplePlumPoster · 10/11/2024 13:33

Better than staying in her flat where she was a sitting target.

And she wouldnt have been a sitting target had she been allowed to go to Texas and see family that Christmas

JenniferBooth · 10/11/2024 14:41

YourAmplePlumPoster · 10/11/2024 13:33

Better than staying in her flat where she was a sitting target.

You do realise domestic abusers are in those hostels as well.
"just move" is the fucking answer to everything in this country.
Being abused................just move
Cant afford to live in your home town...............just move (but you WILL be expected to care for your elderly parents despite having to move miles away)
Housing association moves in a druggie or criminial next door...............just move.

YourAmplePlumPoster · 10/11/2024 13:33

Better than staying in her flat where she was a sitting target.

JenniferBooth · 09/11/2024 23:02

YourAmplePlumPoster · 09/11/2024 22:42

I can understand why she was so angry but as a survivor myself I would have been glad for that level of support from the police. It was the court system that let her down by giving him bail.

The level of support from the police that would have involved her moving to a hostel in Kings Cross amongst druggies and criminals where she would be safe?

YourAmplePlumPoster · 09/11/2024 22:42

I can understand why she was so angry but as a survivor myself I would have been glad for that level of support from the police. It was the court system that let her down by giving him bail.

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dick27 · 09/11/2024 15:52

LaurieFairyCake · 09/11/2024 15:14

Watched all of it yesterday, absolutely loved it. Anna Maxwell Martin was just unbelievable.

What I particularly loved about it was how she was not 'the perfect victim' instead she was a real fucking victim utterly understandably traumatised. I just loved how real she was.

Honestly, she should win a bafta for that performance.

She's one of my favourite actresses, I saw her in the Constituent a few months ago at the Old Vic. Just incredible.

Fully agree on all points. She deserves all the awards for the performance.

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LaurieFairyCake · 09/11/2024 15:14

Watched all of it yesterday, absolutely loved it. Anna Maxwell Martin was just unbelievable.

What I particularly loved about it was how she was not 'the perfect victim' instead she was a real fucking victim utterly understandably traumatised. I just loved how real she was.

Honestly, she should win a bafta for that performance.

She's one of my favourite actresses, I saw her in the Constituent a few months ago at the Old Vic. Just incredible.

1apenny2apenny · 09/11/2024 14:17

Binged this last night, had never heard of her either. Poor poor woman, so badly treated but so courageous. Unfortunately we know this continues to happen 😟.

Anna Maxwell Martin is excellent, as is Shaun Evans.

Betty91 · 09/11/2024 13:45

Have just finished it. She was treated so appallingly.

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