Pope’s credits include many true-crime dramas, including the recent Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes

Jeff Pope is the writer behind a four-part, ITV drama called Believe Me, about serial rapist John Worboys, to be played by Daniel Mays.

From Pope’s Etta Pictures (part of ITV Studios), the series recounts the story of three victims of Worboys, one of the most prolific sex attackers in British history. Worboys drove a black cab, where he would tell his victims that he had won some money and that they should have a glass of champagne, which he had laced with drugs to render them unconscious.

Two of the women who reported sexual assaults by Worboys felt they were not being believed, and joined forces with solicitor Harriet Wistrich and Phillippa Kaufmann QC, and decided to sue the Metropolitan Police under the Human Rights Act for their failure to properly conduct investigations into their allegations of sexual assault.

Worboys was convicted in 2009 for sexually assaulting twelve women between 2006 and 2008, with their cases selected from a large number of suspected further victims.

Aimée-Ffion Edwards, Miriam Petche and Aasiya Shah play the three women with Mays as Worboys.

The drama is filmed in Cardiff and is produced with the support of the Welsh Government via Creative Wales.

Pope is a seasoned writer with many true-crime dramas to his name, including Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, The Walk In, Hatton Garden, A Confession, Little Boy Blue, Mrs Biggs and Lucan. He was executive producer on The Reckoning and Appropriate Adult, both written by Neil McKay.

Pope executive produces the drama alongside Saurabh Kakkar on behalf of Etta Pictures. Julia directs with Catrin Lewis Defis producing.

Pope said: “The series goes on an emotional journey with the victims of Worboys’ attacks, showing what happened to them when they reported being raped and assaulted, the pain and indignity of the process and how this de-humanised them.

“But most shocking of all is how they felt that not being believed by the police and having the attacks recorded, essentially, as non-crimes, was as traumatising for them as the actual assaults.”