ASSASSINS

In February 2017, CCTV cameras captured a tubby and seemingly innocuous Asian chap being fatally poisoned by two young women in Kuala Lumpur airport.

The grainy footage, which played on the world’s news bulletins, was as bizarre as it was shocking.

After forcing a nerve agent into his eyes and leaving him to die, one of the women smiled knowingly at the security camera. She was wearing a jumper with the letters LOL on the front.

The man was Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean

TRUE CRIME Doan Thi Huong (red scarf) leaves court

despot Kim Jong-un. The two women, Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, claimed they were duped into taking part in what they believed to be a Jeremy Beadlestyle prank television show.

As the news agenda moved on, Siti and Doan were left in

Malaysia awaiting a murder trial and possible execution.

This fascinating and rigorously researched documentary relates what happened next. Director Ryan White leaves no stone unturned, interviewing cops, intelligence officers, diplomats, family members and the girls themselves as they await their fate.

I won’t reveal what happens in the end but I’d advise against Googling their names. This is a shocking, heartbreaking and at times unbearably tense true crime thriller.