A Screen One film starring Maggie O'Neill, Peter Howitt

A drama based on the true story of Sara Thornton who, in 1990, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband. This year, at a retrial, she was found guilty of manslaughter.
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Killing Me Softly: 9.00pm BBC1
The Sara Thornton case is highly emotive, so any drama based on it is bound to be contentious. Killing Me Softly is an effective, compassionate account of a marriage gone fatally wrong, with Sara (Maggie O'Neill) and Malcolm (Peter Howitt) locked in a nightmarish cycle of violence and remorse. The film opens with the killing, a horribly matter-of-fact event compounded by Sara's cool demeanour. The story continues in flashbacks intercut with Sara's trial for murder, at which evidence of her mental instability and Malcolm's drunken rages is used by both prosecution and defence to muddy the legal waters.