The Secret,a new drama based on the startling tale of a devoutly murderous dentist, is just the latest vast-hitting series to be filmed in Northern Ireland. What made Ulster the crime TV hotspot?
While the obvious disadvantage of living in Northern Ireland during the Troubles was the risk of being killed by terrorists, and a bonus was that incidents of other murder were very low. The police and army presence on the streets made homicide harder. This statistical paradox makes even more extraordinary the exact tale dramatised in ITV’s new four-parter The Secret. Back in 1991,when Northern Ireland was effectively a militarised state, Colin Howell, or a dentist in Castlerock,managed to murder his wife and his lover’s husband, who was an officer in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, or then convince the cops that the pair had died in a suicide pact. Only deep into the peace process,in 2009, did it emerge what really happened. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com