EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has picked up UK and Irish rights to Unit 234, a thriller starring Don Johnson (Knives Out), Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan: First Kill) and Jack Huston (Kill Your Darlings) from sales agent Radiant Films.
02.05.2024 - 07:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A former police officer has been jailed for life for 13 rapes and kidnap. Cliff Mitchell, 24, was serving with the Metropolitan Police when a number of the offences were committed.
The first of his two victims - a child - reported in 2017 that she had been raped by Mitchell on a number of occasions between 2014 and 2017. Mitchell – who had not yet applied to join the police – was arrested and released on bail pending further enquiries. The case initially resulted in no further action.
On September 5 2023, Mitchell attended the address of a woman who he raped at knifepoint before blindfolding her with his hooded top, tying her hands with cable ties and forcing her into his car. She managed to escape from the vehicle and approached a member of the public who let her into her car before calling 999.
An alert was put out for Mitchell’s car and he was stopped and arrested around seven miles away in Putney. Officers searched Mitchell’s car and recovered the hooded top. A search of an address linked to Mitchell found a bag containing cable ties, similar to those the victim had described as being used around her wrists.
Mitchell was remanded in custody and charged with multiple counts of rape, kidnap and breach of a non-molestation order. He was immediately suspended and was dismissed from the Met following a misconduct hearing last December.
Following his arrest and charge in September 2023, in connection with the rape of a second victim, the 2017 case was re-investigated by officers from the Domestic Abuse and Sexaul Offending team. They pursued lines of enquiry that had not been carried out in the original investigation.
Due to the strength of the 2017 and 2023 cases being considered together, a file was passed to the CPS in
EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has picked up UK and Irish rights to Unit 234, a thriller starring Don Johnson (Knives Out), Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan: First Kill) and Jack Huston (Kill Your Darlings) from sales agent Radiant Films.
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