The mother of a murdered newlywed has expressed her grief after learning that the tragedy would be the subject of a new BBC series. Anne MacPherson says her family have been "ripped apart all over again", accusing the broadcaster of reopening the family’s wounds by focusing on her daughter's shotgun killing in the drama Sherwood, which starts on Monday (June 13).
Just weeks after 23-year-old Chanel walked down the aisle in 2004, she was shot dead by her abusive dad Terry Rodgers, 55. Rodgers, who had been violent to his wife and three children, hid from police in woods for three weeks.
When he was caught, prosecutors refused to accept his denial of murder but admission of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He went on hunger strike and died a month before his March 2006 murder trial. He never said why he killed Chanel, as reported in The Mirror.
