New documentary on former Royal aide turned killer
JANE ANDREWS SPOTTED SHOPPING IN LINCOLNSHIRE
JANE Andrews, the Cleethorpes women who rubbed shoulders with Royalty before killing her boyfriend in a spiteful rage, will be the focus of an ITV documentary being broadcast tomorrow.
Previously the Duchess of York’s former dresser, she swapped her high life for one behind bars after murdering her tycoon boyfriend, Tom Cressman.
And she has been spotted shopping in Lincolnshire, reportedly in Louth, ahead of the documentary. According to the Daily Mail, Andrews is said to be apprehensive about the documentary as she was seen food shopping in Lincolnshire where she now lives.
Almost 20 years ago, the Old Bailey heard how Andrews beat Mr Cressman with a cricket bat and stabbed him in the heart with a kitchen knife as he lied in bed at their home in Fulham, West London.
She left Mr Cressman, 39, dying in bed alone while she went on a run – and called her friends on her mobile phone as if nothing had happened. Andrews was caught four days later after Fergie left two voicemail messages on her phone pleading with her to hand herself in to the police. The prosecution explained how Andrews expected Mr Cressman to propose to her while on a trip
– but, instead, he said he had no intention of marrying her and ended their two-year relationship. Jurors rejected claims that Mr Cressman “must have come forward on to the knife in the dark” and the cricket bat was used in self-defence after Andrews ‘woke up to find him hitting her’.
Andrews alleged Mr Cressman had raped her – however, this was also rejected in the trail.
She was sentenced to life in prison in 2001 for killing Mr Cressman.
However, in 2009, Andrews escaped from East Sutton Park Open Prison in Maidstone, Kent, and met with her parents in a graveyard during the night.
She apparently tried to demand a taxi driver to take them back to Grimsby – but police captured her soon afterwards.
Andrews was freed on licence in 2015 but was recalled to New Hall Prison in 2018 after being accused of harassment. It is understood this is not linked to Mr Cressman’s family. The Daily Mail has reported:
“According to friends, she is ‘terrified’ of the effect the documentary will have, reminding people that she killed Mr Cressman”.
The ITV documentary, named Fergie’s Killer Dresser: The Jane Andrews Story, explores her role as a Royal dresser through to her conviction as a killer.
It questions whether the courts would have dealt with the case in the same way had it happened now. A spokesperson at ITV said: “Her role as a Royal dresser and subsequent fall from grace was a long way from her upbringing in Lincolnshire. “Some who had met her prior to Tom’s murder say they would not have expected it of her.
“Yet for Tom’s family, and most of the journalists who wrote about her, Jane is an obsessive stalker and ‘a danger to all men’.”
Brother Rick Cressman said: “She never once said sorry for what she did, she’s just tried to get out of what she has done, [in] any way she could.”
The 90-minute documentary is set to air on ITV on Wednesday, March 3 at 9pm.