Back in 2004, a small mining village in Nottinghamshire found itself in a surreal sea of police, press and search helicopters. Annesley Woodhouse became the centre of the nation's attention after two grisly and shocking murders led to the biggest manhunt ever undertaken by Nottinghamshire Police.
In July of that year, Robert Boyer had shot ex-miner Keith 'Froggy' Frogson with a crossbow on his doorstep, before hacking him to death with a sword and setting fire to his home - with his victim's daughter and her husband still inside. Then later that month, Terry Rodgers was living in his daughter Chanel's home in Huthwaite when he shot her four times, just weeks after her wedding.
The two crimes, though completely separate, will be forever intrinsically linked - as the two killers fled into woodland near Annesley Woodhouse, both remaining at large for weeks while police tried to hunt them down. These events have inspired a new BBC drama set to be released this summer called Sherwood - starring David Morrissey, Robert Glenister and Lesley Manville - which although fictional, will be inspired in part by these events and set in the Nottinghamshire mining village where executive producer James Graham grew up.
