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1 x 93’ for ITV1A chilling drama of one woman’s obsessionDirector – Jamie Payne (Primeval, Life Line)Writer – Gwyneth Hughes (Miss Austen Regrets, Mysterious Creatures)Producer – Elinor Day (The Diary of Anne Frank, Clapham Junction)David Morrissey – The Other Boleyn Girl, Basic Instinct 2Tara Fitzgerald – Waking The Dead, Brassed OffMonica Dolan – The History of Mr Polly, PoirotLucy Griffiths – Robin Hood

1 x 93’ for ITV1Director – Jamie Payne (Primeval, Life Line)Writer – Gwyneth Hughes (Miss Austen Regrets, Mysterious Creatures)Producer – Elinor Day (The Diary of Anne Frank, Clapham Junction)David Morrissey – The Other Boleyn Girl, Basic Instinct 2Tara Fitzgerald – Waking The Dead, Brassed OffMonica Dolan – The History of Mr Polly, PoirotLucy Griffiths – Robin HoodEveryday, across the world, someone becomes obsessed with another person’s life. In 2007, Maria Marchese wassentenced to nine years in prison for viciously stalking a London doctor, his family and even the lawyer who prosecutedher. The Metropolitan Police called it “one of the worst cases of stalking we have ever had to investigate”. This is the storyof an obsession that almost cost one man his freedom.Based on an extraordinary true story. Dr Jan Falkowski (Morrissey) and his fiancée Debbie Pemberton (Fitzgerald) couldthink of no-one who would want to stalk them with threatening texts and phone calls. Even when the stalker professed tobeing in love with Jan, they refused to take her increasingly manic behaviour seriously. That is until she broke into theirhouseboat 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 thecharade, shadowed by plain clothes officers. Warning texts and phone calls rained down on everyone connected to thewedding 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 sentfrom and arrested the woman who had been stalking Jan Falkowski for two years. Maria Marchese (Dolan) was anunlikely stalker who had only met Jan a handful of times through a patient of his. After initially denying she was guiltyof 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 rapesuspect he was suspended from his psychiatric practice and, if found guilty, could be jailed for life. An extraordinary trialfollowed 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 humanrelationships, desperation and endurance. Some of the facts of this case defy belief and Gwyneth Hughes has workedtirelessly with the victims, police, families and lawyers to really get under the skin of what Maria Marchese put everyonethrough,’ said producer Elinor Day.For further details please email: img.entertainment@imgworld.comMcCormack House | Burlington Lane | London | W4 2TH | Tel: + 44 (0) 20 8233 5300 | Fax: + 44 (0) 20 8233 5301www.imgprogramming.com