WHITECHAPEL

(Pic: Phil Davis as DS Miles, Rupert Penry-Jones as DI Chandler and Steve Pemberton as Edward Buchan)

BBC highlight for June for BBC Entertainment.

The Crime and Justice Season continues on BBC Entertainment on DStv with the three episodes of the Whitechapel series which can be seen on June 22, 23 and 24 at 20h30 on

The streets of Whitechapel are awash with blood. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them butchered. The locals live in fear and the police remain clueless – with no motive, no evidence and no hope of catching the killer. But this is not the 19th century and the time of Jack the Ripper. This is now.

Assigned to the case is DI Chandler – a novice in the business of murder. His fellow officers, however, are anything but. Chief among them is DS Miles, the archetypal seen-it-all detective. Tipped-off by “Ripperologist” Edward Buchan, Chandler realises this modern day killer is copying the Whitechapel murders, down to the last detail. Can Chandler do what his fellow officers failed to do more than 100 years before, and catch the person responsible?

Whitechapel is a far cry from most police dramas. Prepare for ambitious storylines, memorable characters and enough scares to keep the blood racing.