John Sweeney, who is played by Shaun Evans in ITV's harrowing drama, was a serial killer who murdered two women ...

John Sweeney, 66, is already serving a whole life sentence for ... who depicted his appalling crimes in paintings and poems.

The last novel of the late Dunne, who died in December 2003, reads rather like a smorgasbord of his previous nonfiction work doused with a heavy sauce of "ripped from the headlines" plotlines.