David Morrissey cast in Yorkshire Ripper drama The Long Shadow

OHMYGOSSIP — David Morrissey is reportedly starring in ‘The Long Shadow’.
The 57-year-old actor is set to play former West Yorkshire Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield in ITV’s upcoming Yorkshire Ripper drama looking at Peter Sutcliffe’s murders from a new angle.
A source told The Sun newspaper’s TV Biz column: “The victims and their families still blame Oldfield and many of his senior colleagues for not catching Sutcliffe earlier.
“If he had been arrested sooner then fewer women would have been attacked and fewer lives ruined.
“So casting someone who is not knowing for playing baddies or villains is something of a revelation.”
The upcoming drama will tell the true story of the five-year search for the notorious serial killer between October 1975 and January 1981.
More than one thousand police officers were involved in the search, the biggest manhunt in British criminal history.
During the investigation, Sutcliffe was interviewed and let go by police nine times.
Oldfield never responded to the criticism over the case before his death in 1985.
Back in 2020, it was revealed ‘Criminal’ writer George Kay has penned the script for the drama.
He said: “In a story full of eye-watering statistics, one for me has always stood out: Peter Sutcliffe rendered 23 children motherless.
“That one fact in itself demands that any definitive drama about this case should encompass far more than just the story of a police investigation.
“We will focus not just on the police, therefore, but the victims, their families, those who were attacked but not believed, those whose lives were permanently changed.
“This is not the story of a Ripper who hailed from Yorkshire, but the story of how Yorkshire was ripped apart.”
ITV’s Head of Drama Polly Hill previously said: “This promises to be a definitive look at this infamous case.”

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