For those who lived through the events of July 2005, Suspect might be dragging them back to a time most would rather forget. Londoners, in particular, had barely got into their stride in celebrating the news that their city would host the 2012 Olympics when three tube trains and a bus were blown apart through a co-ordinated terror attack. Two weeks later, an exact replica of those atrocities was attempted yet mercifully failed, but one day later, an innocent Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes was repeatedly shot in the head by security forces while minding his own business on a train at Stockwell underground. They wrongfully believed him to be set upon carrying out another attack.

The events that led to this murder were a trail of errors (by the Metropolitan Police) and misfortune (de Menezes happened to be living in the same block as one of the failed bombers and was falsely identified and subsequently followed on the morning of his death), with Jean Charles’ family initially grief-stricken and then galvanised into seeking justice in the face of police intransigence and media slurs.

An all-star cast bring this appalling story to terrifying life with Russell Tovey as Brian Paddick, the high-ranking copper who paid with his job for breaking ranks with the flawed official line; Conleth Hill as Met boss Ian Blair whose handling of events would charitably be dubbed ‘flawed’; and Emily Mortimer as Cressida Dick who oversaw the de Menezes pursuit. Even those perfectly au fait with this bloody period of history will feel a rush of anxious adrenaline as the countdown to the failed bombings reaches its conclusion.

All episodes of Suspect are available now on Disney+.