Living in FEAR

Anna Maxwell Martin stars in the true story of a nurse's ordeal at the hands of her killer boyfriend

- IAN MACEWAN, ALISON SLADE

NEW DRAMA Until I Kill You Sun-Wed, 9pm, ITV1 (box set, ITVX)

The shocking true story of nurse Delia Balmer and her narrow escape from her serial-killer boyfriend is retold in the chilling drama Until I Kill You, starring Ludwig's Anna Maxwell Martin and Endeavour actor Shaun Evans.

As the four-parter begins, Balmer is a free spirit who loves travel. She thinks she's met her soulmate in itinerant carpenter and amateur artist John Sweeney after the pair meet in a London pub in 1991, and soon, he moves into her flat.

What she doesn't know is that Sweeney murdered his ex-girlfriend and dumped her body in a Netherlands canal - and the nurse is terrified when Sweeney blurts out his crime during a violent attack on her that follows increasingly controlling behaviour.

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