A Labour MP who was the target of a far-right murder plot depicted in Jeff Pope’s Stephen Graham-starring ITV drama The Walk-In has lambasted the broadcaster for its “stupid, stupid, st…
Speaking in the UK’s House of Commons yesterday, Rosie Cooper said she has had death threats since the series was broadcast and claimed she had been used as a “marketing tool” by ITV.
“What excuse is there for a press release that says, ‘Who is Rosie Cooper and who wanted to murder her’? There is no defence to that,” she said, according to the BBC.a “stupid, stupid, stupid series.” She also recalled how she had been granted a government car at the end of one related trial because “ITV’s despicable cameraman chased me up and down the road”.
ITV, which has also aired a documentary on the incident, said the show was conducted “overwhelmingly in the public interest.”Hillsborough, Bloody Sunday, Appropriate Adult, Little Boy Blue, ITV has a long record of broadcasting factual dramas based on or representing real events.” A spokesman for Hope Not Hate backed the drama and said, since it aired, several current and former members of the organized far right have been in touch with the campaign group seeking support to leave.
“Clearly, we are disappointed to hear Rosie’s words in the chamber today. In 2017, several members of our organization worked tirelessly and at tremendous sacrifice to themselves to foil the murder plot against Rosie Cooper,” added the spokesman.
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