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From: Leah Rebecca Day
To: A-Clue-No@...
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 5:21 AM
Subject: Re: [A-Clue-No] A New Role for Lucy!


>Thanks for the heads up Rosie, and feel free to post whatever you like,
>I'll try to post it onto the other boards.

Rightio doll. :-) I'll definitely be tuning in when it's broadcast!

Rosie


















----- Original Message ----
From: Rosie <rosie1969@...>
To: A-Clue-No@...
Sent: Sunday, 8 June, 2008 9:34:12 AM
Subject: [A-Clue-No] A New Role for Lucy!


Feel free to delete if it's not appropriate here! (Leah - for your LG Yahoo
group and the Lucy forum)

http://www.itv. com/PressCentre/ Pressreleases/ Programmepressre
leases/DavidMorr isseystarsinthet ruestoryofadange rousstalkerinUBe
Dead/default. html

06/06/2008
Everyday, across the world, someone becomes obsessed with another person’s
life. In 2007, Maria Marchese was sentenced to nine years in prison for
viciously stalking a London doctor, his family and even the lawyer who
prosecuted her. The Metropolitan Police called it “one of the worst cases
of stalking we have ever had to investigate”. This is the story of an
obsession that almost cost one man his freedom.
Based on an extraordinary true story – told with the help of the very
people who suffered at the hands of Marchese - U Be Dead stars David
Morrissey (State Of Play, Blackpool, The Deal), Tara Fitzgerald (Waking The
Dead, Jane Eyre, Brassed Off), Lucy Griffiths (Robin Hood) and Monica Dolan
(Wallis & Edward, The History of Mr Polly, Poirot). The film is produced by
Darlow Smithson (Touching the Void, Clapham Junction, the forthcoming The
Diary of Anne Frank) for ITV1.
Dr Jan Falkowski (Morrissey) and his fiancée Debbie Pemberton (Fitzgerald)
could think of no-one who would want to stalk them with threatening texts
and phone calls. Even when the stalker professed to being in love with Jan,
they refused to take her increasingly manic behaviour seriously. That is
until she broke into their houseboat and opened the gas taps, threatened
Jan’s family and attempted to cancel their wedding.
Jan and Debbie’s relationship began to suffer under the strain. In fear
for their lives, they moved to an address nobody, including their parents,
knew. In an attempt to flush the stalker out, Jan and Debbie eventually
staged a fake wedding. Although Jan had now fallen in love with a younger
woman, Bethan Ancell (Griffiths), he agreed to go through with the charade,
shadowed by plain clothes officers. Warning texts and phone calls rained
down on everyone connected to the wedding and Debbie was told to “prepare
your funeral, not your wedding.”
Finally, the police began to close in. As a final text arrived - “U Be
Dead” - they surrounded the phone box it was sent from and arrested the
woman who had been stalking Jan Falkowski for two years. Maria Marchese
(Dolan) was an unlikely stalker who had only met Jan a handful of times
through a patient of his. After initially denying she was guilty of
harassing Jan, she then claimed to be texting him because he had raped her.
And she had DNA evidence to prove it.
Jan’s nightmare had just got much, much worse. The DNA evidence on
Marchese’s underwear was compelling. As a rape suspect he was suspended
from his psychiatric practice and, if found guilty, could be jailed for
life. An extraordinary trial followed which fascinated the media and public
alike.
‘This is not only a disturbing criminal case and nail-biting thriller, but
it's also a fascinating insight into human relationships, desperation and
endurance. Some of the facts of this case defy belief and Gwyneth Hughes has
worked tirelessly with the victims, police, families and lawyers to really
get under the skin of what Maria Marchese put everyone through,' said
producer Elinor Day.
U Be Dead is written by Gwyneth Hughes (Miss Austen Regrets, Mysterious
Creatures, Five Days). The Executive Producer is John Smithson and the
producer is Elinor Day (the forthcoming The Diary of Anne Frank for the BBC,
Clapham Junction, Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Silk Stocking). Jamie
Payne (Primeval, Life Line, The Baby War) directs.
U Be Dead will be filmed in London and Dorset in June.
Darlow Smithson Productions is one of the most prestigious and celebrated
independent production companies in the UK and has achieved worldwide
industry recognition for its ground-breaking docu-dramas, series and
documentaries. The quality of Darlow Smithson’s work has been recognised
with more than 30 international awards.
For more information contact Natalie Cheary on 0844 881 3034 or
natalie.cheary@ itv.com
For pictures contact Shane Chapman on 0844 881 3043 or shane.chapman@
itv.com

Rosie x

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