Jane is is a criminologist, author, scriptwriter and dramatist. Her TV work includes episodes of ITV's CORONATION STREET, THE BILL and IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, and BBC2 TV film THE THIEVING H ...Show More
Jane is is a criminologist, author, scriptwriter and dramatist. Her TV work includes episodes of ITV's CORONATION STREET, THE BILL and IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, and BBC2 TV film THE THIEVING HEADMISTRESS starring DENIS LAWSON, PAULINE QUIRKE and GEOFFREY PALMER.Her stage play "LIFER" was adapted to audio, starring MICHELLE COLLINS with an intro by poet BRENDA BIRUNGI aka LADY UNCHAINED, and will be released in 2021. Her play "WHACK-A-MOLE", a dark comedy thriller featuring three generations of women, was written while Jane was a member of the HighTide Theatre Writers group, London, and formed part of the "I'm Here, Where Are You?" Arts Festival in Cambridge in 2019 followed by a regional tour when Covid struck. It was audio recorded in 2021 starring MICHELLE COLLINS, with NITIN GANATRA (Masood in EASTENDERS); LINDA MARLOWE (Sylvie Carter, EASTENDERS) with a poem introduction by JLS's ORITSE WILLIAMS and is in post production. She is currently working on her new play "SUMMAT'S HAPPENED", based on her book AFTER EVIL and will have a first reading at the Cambridge Junction Studio theatre in December 2021.Jane's also makes regular expert appearances on TV crime programmes including on the 90-minute film for Channel 5, "ROSE: THE MAKING OF A MONSTER" based on her book "ROSE WEST:THE MAKING OF A MONSTER", for which she was also programme consultant, inn 2021. Other appearances include "TEN STEPS TO MURDER" (2019), "THE KILLER IN MY FAMILY" (aka 'My Deadly Relation' in the U.S.) for Really TV (2019), "BRITAINS MOST EVEIL SERIAL KILLER" , "THE FRED AND ROSE STORY" for Channel 5.She also appears on news programmes including GOOD MORNING BRITAIN in 2021 re, eg, possible further West murders and Sky News regards the death of the Yorkshire Ripper November 2020 as well as ITV news commenting on homicides, eg, Sabah Khan who brutally murdered her sister, and the harrowing abduction and murder of India Chipchase, outside a Northampton club.Jane's books "ROSE WEST:THE MAKING OF A MONSTER" and "AFTER EVIL" the later telling the story of the son of a victim of the Yorkshire Ripper, are published by Hodder & Stoughton. Her new work "THE WISHLIST" won the best unpublished novel at the Hollywood Book Festival 2021. Her thriller "BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: A DETECTIVE HOBAN NOVEL" is based on the life and work of Dennis Hoban, the iconic young Head of Leeds CID in the 1960s, and won an honorary award at the San Francisco book festival 2016. Her short story SWAN VESTA was shortlisted at the Guildford Book Festival.Jane has a BA (Hons) Modern History at London University, and a Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy in Criminology from the University of Cambridge, where she was also a research fellow and research associate and undertook extensive research with women and men in prison. Hide
