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Binge Deceit on BritBox

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Binge Deceit on BritBox – Follows the true story of a controversial honeytrap at the heart of the 1992 police investigation into the murder of a young mother in London.


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Storyline for Binging Deceit on BritBox


Following the murder of Rachel Nickell in 1992, a female undercover police officer was deployed to obtain the evidence that would secure a conviction of the prime suspect, Colin Stagg.

This would go on to become one of the most infamous entrapment cases in British law enforcement history.

Deceit, written by Emilia di Girolamo, and based on extensive research and interviews, tells the story of the honeytrap operation and the officer at the centre of it.

Niamh Algar gives a phenomenal performance as Lizzie James/Sadie Byrne (not the officer’s real name, as her identity is still protected by court order), a performance layered with certainty and doubt as the officer’s aptitude is stretched to its limit on the most daunting of assignments.

Algar shows Byrne’s desire to prove herself in a casually and systemically sexist workplace, which both complements and complicates her desire for justice.

You believe and understand her character entirely as, following a plan designed by Britton (Eddie Marsan), Byrne befriends Stagg and inches along the line between encouragement and entrapment.

Sion Daniel Young as Stagg does an equally remarkable job – letting all of the man’s unsettling unsavouriness show but never losing touch with his humanity.

Our sympathies – or at least enough of them – stay with him to the end.


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Episodes of Deceit on BritBox


Following the murder of Rachel Nickell in 1992, a female undercover police officer was deployed to obtain the evidence that would secure a conviction of the prime suspect, Colin Stagg.

This would go on to become one of the most infamous entrapment cases in British law enforcement history.

Deceit, written by Emilia di Girolamo, and based on extensive research and interviews, tells the story of the honeytrap operation and the officer at the centre of it.

Niamh Algar gives a phenomenal performance as Lizzie James/Sadie Byrne (not the officer’s real name, as her identity is still protected by court order), a performance layered with certainty and doubt as the officer’s aptitude is stretched to its limit on the most daunting of assignments.

Algar shows Byrne’s desire to prove herself in a casually and systemically sexist workplace, which both complements and complicates her desire for justice.

You believe and understand her character entirely as, following a plan designed by Britton (Eddie Marsan), Byrne befriends Stagg and inches along the line between encouragement and entrapment.

Sion Daniel Young as Stagg does an equally remarkable job – letting all of the man’s unsettling unsavouriness show but never losing touch with his humanity.

Our sympathies – or at least enough of them – stay with him to the end.


Binge Deceit on BritBox, S1.E1 Episode #1.1

Sadie is an ambitious and successful undercover police officer.

After playing the key role in a major drug bust she is dismissed by her male colleagues.

And then she’s suddenly given the chance to work on a case that could make her career.


Binge Deceit on BritBox, S1.E2 Episode #1.2

Enters the world of Colin Stagg, the Met Police’s prime suspect. In officers’ minds, Stagg perfectly fitted the criminal profile of the killer, and yet there was no hard evidence linking him to the murder.

Their hopes of a conviction rested on the involvement of undercover officer Sadie Byrne in his life.


Binge Deceit on BritBox, S1.E3 Episode #1.3

As the weeks pass, undercover police officer Sadie – aka Lizzie – is unable to crack prime suspect Colin Stagg, and it soon becomes clear that the pressure she’s under is starting to have a profound impact.


Binge Deceit on BritBox, S1.E4 Episode #1.4

Colin Stagg is interrogated by police about Rachel’s murder details and is subsequently put on trial.


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