TV review: The Nobody Zone offers a chilling tale of Irish serial killer Kieran Kelly 

The Nobody Zone uses the recording of the original police interviews with the London-based killer to delve into his macabre story 
TV review: The Nobody Zone offers a chilling tale of Irish serial killer Kieran Kelly 

Ned Dennehy as Kieran Kelly in The Nobody Zone, on RTÉ One. 

‘Okay Kelly, how many did you kill altogether?’ Given the phenomenal success of the true-crime podcast, it is no surprise that a two-part televised version of The Nobody Zone has been created.

The story itself is both fascinating and shocking in equal measures. It opens with a seemingly impossibly straightforward case - the year is 1983 and William Boyd is found strangled to death in a London cell. Present in the cell is another unassuming vagrant by the name of Kieran Kelly, one of many Irish men who found themselves orbiting what was called ‘The Nobody Zone’ - the forgotten underworld of London’s homeless.

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