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True Crime Doco “Kidnapped: The Angel Lynn Story” for Channel 4
Channel 4 has commissioned Wonderhood Studios to create a documentary about the life of Angel Lynn, a young woman who sustained life-altering injuries while attempting to flee an abusive relationship.
Using text messages, social media posts, photos, and phone conversations between Angel and her abusive boyfriend, the film aims to give victims of coercive control a voice and shows how a loving daughter became trapped in an abusive relationship that nearly cost her life after she was kidnapped.
The parents of Angel Lynn, Nikki and Paddy Lynn, as well as other members of her family and closest acquaintances from school and work, have spoken exclusively to the writers of Kidnapped: The Angel Lynn Story (w/t). The film documents her recovery from the severe injuries she sustained when she was thrown from a moving van at high speed, with the goal that she will one day be able to tell her family what happened.
Angel Lynn, a Loughborough native and college student of 18 years, aspired to a career in forensic science and worked diligently to get there. She had always been an open book, and her family and acquaintances knew everything that was going on in her life. But everything changed when she got involved with Chay Bowskill; the relationship quickly became controlling, manipulative, and psychologically abusive. Despite Bowskill’s incarceration, Angel continued to maintain communication with him via phone throughout their relationship. After his release, their relationship continued, and Angel continued to show her acquaintances the increasingly abusive and threatening texts she was receiving from him.
Angel eventually made the courageous choice to flee Bowskill after she claimed he had injured her by violently throwing her against a wall. It’s unclear what occurred next, but Angel apparently fell out of a van driven by an acquaintance of Bowskill’s while it was travelling at around 60 mph after being bundled into the vehicle. She was abandoned in the road as they drove away.
Despite doctors’ predictions that Angel would not make it out of her coma, she has been slowly improving, even taking a few baby steps just recently, though she is still unable to tell the police or her family what happened. Bowskill was found guilty of coercive and controlling behavior, kidnapping, and perverting the course of justice and given a sentence of seven and a half years in jail, which was subsequently increased to twelve.
Kidnapped: The Angel Lynn Story (w/t) is directed by award-winning Chloe Fairweather (Dying to Divorce, Scouting for Girls), produced by Alison Cain, and the executive producers are Wonderhood’s Head of Factual Programmes Katharine Patrick (The Devil’s Advocate, Baby Surgeons) and James W. Newton (Baby Surgeons, Super Surgeons: A Chance at Life). The film is edited by Simon Mason and the animation is by Blind Pig. The production manager is Tracy Martin, and Lianne Hickey is head of production. It was commissioned by Will Rowson and is being distributed by Freemantle.
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