Rachel Nickell murder: The Witness creator reveals the shocking detail he couldn’t ignore; ‘no one knew…’
Nearly 35 years after British model Rachel Nickell was murdered in broad daylight on Wimbledon Common in London, her story is finally being told in full. Netflix has released a three-part dramatized series, The Witness, alongside a companion documentary, The Murder of Rachel Nickell and both available to stream now. Netflix’s The Witness revisits the 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell. (Netflix) The series is created and written by Rob Williams, who was just 18 when Rachel was killed in 1992. What happened to Rachel Nickell and how the investigation went wrong On July 15, 1992, 23-year-old Rachel Nickell was walking through Wimbledon Common in South West London with her two-year-old son Alex and their dog when she was attacked without warning. She was sexually assaulted and stabbed 49 times in broad daylight, with little Alex as the only witness. After the attack, Alex tried to wake his mother. “There was blood everywhere. Everything was silent,” he later recalled, as per TIME. “I said, ‘Get up, Mummy’ and she didn’t respond. Then for the last time, …









