Luther creator believed for years that he'd murdered homeless man while drunk

mirror.co.uk:

The writer of Luther has told a chilling tale of how he was convinced for years that he'd committed a crime that had never actually taken place.

Neil Cross, who penned the Idris Elba-fronted detective series, explained that he believed he had murdered a homeless man during a drunken night out.

The incident never actually took place, but Neil shared that he'd had "no sense of it being a dream" when he woke up the morning after the night out.

Ahead of his much-anticipated new drama The Sister, which will air on ITV, Neil told the story to a digital press event. "I was very young, I was 16 or 17 and I was out of my head on rough cider in Bristol… we used to drink rough cider in gallon containers because it was 32p a pint," the 51-year-old