HOW does it feel to meet the man who you believed ruined your life? Colin Stagg has done just that – and ended up asking him to go for a pint.
Colin spent 13 months behind bars after being wrongly charged with the murder of young mum Rachel Nickell in 1992 – and has waited nearly three decades to meet forensic psychologist Professor Paul Britton, who he has always blamed for his conviction.
The expert criminal profiler, whose work inspired the hit TV series Cracker, was called in by police to help find 23-year-old Rachel’s killer.
But he came under fire for helping to devise the controversial “honey trap” sting to try to snare Colin, which led to his arrest, despite failing to produce a confession.
Colin, who was acquitted in 1994, has long been desperate to meet Prof Britton, who always declined to speak publicly – until now.