The Killer Next Door?

Kelly Macdonald is a grief-stricken mother who wants revenge on her child’s murderer.

If you like your crime dramas to keep you guessing right up to the very end, The Victim might just become your next obsession. The BBC1 four-part series tells the story of Scottish mother Anna, who has not recovered from her son’s murder 15 years earlier. The killer was only a child himself, and has now been afforded a fresh start with a new identity, leaving an anguished Anna determined to hunt him down.

Then, a few streets away, a bus driver and family man, Craig Myers, falls victim to a vigilante attack as the local community believes he’s the person who killed Anna’s son. Craig’s attacker was incited by a social-media post, and the police suspect that it was Anna who put it online. what will the consequences be for such a rash decision?

DIFFICULT QUESTIONS

‘The story is about the domino effect of this social-media post on many people’s lives,’ says Kelly Macdonald, who plays the grieving mother. ‘Anna has got absolutely no respect for the police. She’s lost faith in them and goes off on her own to try to find the person who killed her boy and served so little prison time.