The Mail on Sunday

Who’s the beast of Broadchurc­h? (we haven’t a cluedo!)

Well, there are seven suspects in TV’s hottest whodunit – so we asked our resident sleuth to mark your cards...

- by Chris Hastings

NEVER have Broadchurc­h’s duo of DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant) and DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) looked quite so grim-faced – and no wonder.

The investigat­ion into the brutal rape of Trish Winterman (Julie Hesmondhal­gh, right) ) that dominates series three, , continues to widen, and it now seems that almost every man in the sleepy Dorset seaside town is a suspect.

The rapist kept his identity hidden, and virtually all that Trish can remember of her awful ordeal outside the 50th birthday party of her friend Cath (Sarah Parish) is that his breath smelled of vodka. With the eight-part series at its halfway point, the show’s ten million viewers have had good reason to consider the guilt of one man after another, as new clues emerge. So now, to help viewers get to grips with the drama so far ahead of tomorrow night’s fifth episode, The Mail on Sunday has drawn up its own charge sheet for each of the suspects, presenting the case for and against…

 ??  ?? ON THE CASE: Olivia Colman as DS Miller and David Tennant as DI Hardy in Broadchurc­h
ON THE CASE: Olivia Colman as DS Miller and David Tennant as DI Hardy in Broadchurc­h

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