Rather than the focus being on the police trying to find the killer, Butchard chooses to focus on the unfortunate victims all killed in the weeks before Christmas of 2006 in Ipswich, and the circumstances that led them into prostitution - heroin, mainly. We felt so sorry for the poor things freezing on the streets. And the impossible jobs the mothers have.
The victims: Jamie Winston, mum Juliet Aubrey, brother Al Weaver (Grantchester).
Eva Birthistle, mum Sarah Lancashire, sister Vicky McClure.
Natalie Press (My Summer of Love, Red Road, Wasp), mum Kate Dickie, sister Holliday Grainger.
Aisling Loftus, boyfriend Martin Compston.
Lauren Socha.
The one that got away: Kierston Wareing.
Law and order: Ian Hart, Adam Kotz, Lisa Millett, Christopher Fairbank, Anton Lesser.
Drug clinic: Sean Harris and David Bradley.
And, Joseph Mawle.
It's all done with a good deal of sensitivity and good acting so full marks to Lowthorpe.
The standout scene - Harris getting up and addressing the residents with the true nature of the problem. He's been steadily working, appearing in Mission Impossible films for one, recently in The Gold. He had so impressed us in Southcliffe and Red Riding.
DP Chris Seager. Editor David Thrasher, Music Peter Salem.
You'd think it would have been a big award winner but BAFTA only nominated Press and Butchard.
As we thought at the time, the girls would at least have been much safer in a legal brothel - but no, of course that would be too much to ask.
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