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ITV, 9pm Piers Morgan’s interview style is like the quiet stealth of an animal sneaking up on its prey. He is polite and charming, he flatters them, gently asking questions, before finally going for the jugular. But here we have little sympathy.

“What does it feel like to be called a murderer?” he asks Jennifer Mee, the latest female inmate to spend an hour in his company. She wells up when he asks what she’ll miss most as a prisoner.

Jennifer became internationally famous aged 15 in 2007 as The Hiccup Girl (after persistent hiccups for five weeks).

But aged 19, she was convicted of murder. She lured a young man to an alleyway where she knew her friends were waiting to rob him. They shot him dead and, under Florida law, as she set him up, she’s just as guilty.

Piers meets Jennifer’s mother and sisters, all of whom believe her sentence of life without parole is too tough. But are they right?

“I can’t ever accept her being called a murderer,” says her mum.