When is A Prescription For Murder? on BBC One, who is Shelley Jofre and what’s the documentary about?
Find out about this new show that looks at whether a pill can cause you to kill
A PRESCRIPTION For Murder? is a BBC documentary focusing on the potential effects of prescription antidepressants.
But what is it about? And when can you watch it? Here's what we know...
What is A Prescription For Murder?
This new Panorama documentary looks into whether prescription antidepressants can turn you into a killer.
Over 40 million prescriptions for SSRI antidepressants were handed out by doctors last year in the UK.
Panorama reveals the devastating side effects on a tiny minority that can lead to psychosis, violence, possibly even murder.
With exclusive access to psychiatric reports, court footage and drug company data, reporter Shelley Jofre investigates the mass killings at the 2012 midnight premiere of a Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado. Twenty-four-year-old PhD student James Holmes, who had no record of violence or gun ownership, murdered 12 and injured 70.
Did the SSRI antidepressant he had been prescribed play a part in the killings?
Panorama has uncovered other cases of murder and extreme violence which could be linked to psychosis developed after the taking of SSRIs - including a father who strangled his 11-year-old son.
Panorama asks if enough is known about this rare side effect, and if doctors are unwittingly prescribing what could be a prescription for murder.
When is A Prescription for Murder? on?
You can catch the show at 9pm on Wednesday July 26, 2017.
If you miss it, you can catch it again on the .
Who is Shelley Jofre?
Shelley is a journalist who was born in Irvine, Ayrshire.
She began her career back in 1995 and is now one of the top investigators for Panorama.
Shelley is married and has a daughter.
Who is James Homes and what was the Aurora massacre?
James Eagan Holmes was born December 13, 1987 and is an American convicted mass murder.
He was responsible for the Aurora cinema shooting that killed 12 people and injured 70 others at a Century movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado, on July 20, 2012.
He walked into a midnight screening of Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises and threw two gas canisters into the audience.
Many in the audience thought it was a publicity stunt until he began spraying the crown with the shotgun, then the assault rifle and finally the pistol.
A witness said he went outside and and shot people as they ran.
Cops apprehended Holmes in his car behind the cinema within minutes of the shooting. He told them that he was “The Joker”.
On August 7 2015 Holmes was sentenced to life in prison without parole, avoiding the death penalty because the jury could not come to a unanimous decision.
