A professionally qualified chartered electrical and mechanical engineer, with operational and commercial energy expertise, Keith has key strengths in energy performance contracting, grid scale solar, grid scale battery, EV charging, hybrid battery/solar and gas engine solutions. Colin said: “When they arrested me and brought Lizzie into the interview room, it was like the last piece of the puzzle had finally been filled and everything made sense.

I didn’t know which lines or bits of the drama were real, but it felt haunting to recreate these interviews almost 30 years on. But the publisher backed off in September 1997 just as he was finishing the manuscript after a policewoman gave the tabloids details of their extramarital affair during the Nickell investigation. At one point, Pedder claims that he and his superior - DCI Mick Wickerson - saw something that was highly incriminating to their suspect, Colin Stagg.

The book also describes Paul Britton's (Britains leading offender profiler) involvement in the case. Rachel's partner, Andre, and Alex – who was a 35-month-old toddler when she was killed – are now living in southern Europe.

It contains shocking letters between police and the chief suspect of this terrible crime, that will make you wonder if justice was really done. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Colin said the impact of being being falsely accused for one of the most notorious crimes of the past 50 years will stay with him for ever. Napper’s other crimes include the murder of Samantha Bisset and her four-year-old daughter, Jazmine, in Plumstead, South East London. Colin said: “We’ll just do it at a registry office and then go on honeymoon to Cornwall, which is a place we both love.He really wanted to find the person that did it, but he’s human, we all have egos… The powers-that-be in the Met signed off on a relatively unproven method because they were equally desperate for closure: criminal profiling can give you some focus, but it proved a very dangerous tool here. It’s so flawed as a technique, because people in love will do and say anything, especially if they’re lonely and desperate for physical connection. They asked Prof Britton, who worked on a string of other high-profile cases including the Fred and Rose West killings and the murder of James Bulger, to draw up an offender profile. The only trouble was that Pedder and Wickerson forgot to mention this alleged fact in their police statements, depositions and Committal Hearing testimony!

If I saw the female officer in the street now I would probably just nod and go about my business,” he revealed. No one could have imagined that when Rachel Nickell went for a walk on Wimbledon Common with her son, it would have resulted in such an appalling crime. They also plotted four meetings with him, including one in which she claimed she had slit a woman’s throat during a satanic ritual before having sex with a man. Keith is a Board-level executive, with over 20 years COO, MD and Director level experience, in the creation, management, growth and maintenance of multi-million pound demand and supply side energy companies. And the professor, said to be the inspiration for Robbie Coltrane’s criminal psychologist in 1990s ITV drama Cracker, helped to devise the plan, codenamed Operation Edzell.

Within minutes of the microfiche being passed, CIB officers arrested Mr Pedder for corruption of a serving officer. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. I think in our story Pedder puts Britton on a pedestal and thinks he’s a genius in part out of necessity, because he needs to share the load with someone. Mr Britton, on whom the TV series Cracker is based, rebutted some of the criticisms in his book, The Jigsaw Man, published in 1997.

Whilst Pedder and the other officers working on this case caused a significant amount of damage to an innocent man's life, I can't deny that this was a good read.If this is a benchmark for the quality of evidence in Sir Paul Condon's anti-corruption campaign, my sympathy goes out to other officers who may find themselves in a similar situation. After Stagg replied to the first letter from the undercover policewoman the CPS also agreed the operation should continue. It also makes you realise how difficult a job the Police have, and, in this particular case, how they took Rachel to their hearts.