• “Till I Kill You” follows Delia Balmer as she recovers from her relationship with serial killer John Sweeney.

• The four-part series is based on Balmer’s book about his ordeal.

• “Til I Kill You” shares a connection with Netflix’s “Baby Reindeer”: they both feature the same London pub.

True crime dramas”Until It Kills You” and Netflix’s mega hit “baby reindeer” they share a surprising connection: they both involve the same London pub.

“Til I Kill You” follows nurse Delia Balmer (Anna Maxwell Martin), who survives an attack by her ex-boyfriend John Sweeney (Shaun Evans), a serial killer nicknamed “The Scalp Hunter.”

The four-part series, broadcast by British channel ITV over the weekend, begins with the pair meeting in a bar and ends with Balmer testifying against Sweeney in court a few years later. Sweeney was convicted of murdering two women, Melissa Halstead and Paula Fields, and was sentenced to life in prison.

ITV has also released a documentary to accompany the series called ‘Till It Kills You: The Real Story’, in which the real Balmer shares details of his ordeal. Initially, she remembers the day she met Sweeney in 1991 at a bar called the Hawley Arms in London’s Camden district.

He said: “It was a bank holiday Monday and I went to the Hawley Arms pub. There was a nice jukebox there.”

Hawley Arms also “baby reindeer“Creator Richard Gadd met Fiona Harvey, the woman on whom the show’s stalker character is based, for the first time.

In court documents Gadd filed in July Harvey’s legal case He said against Netflix: “I met Harvey in 2014 at the Hawley Arms, the pub where I was working at the time. I noticed Harvey looked distressed and offered him a cup of tea on the house.”

In “Baby Reindeer,” Donny Dunn (Gadd) works at a fictional version of the bar called The Heart and becomes obsessed with his stalker, Martha Scott (Jessica Gunning), after she shows him a moment of kindness.

Appearing in these TV series isn’t the pub’s only claim to fame. british singer Amy Winehouse He visited the place frequently in the 2000s, according to his manager, Craig Seymour.

he said in 2017 Deputy: “He’d come in and say: ‘Craig, baby, can I serve some drinks?’ “I’ve seen grown men burst into tears after Amy’s service.”

Vice reported that other British stars were also present, including Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher and The Libertines singer Pete Doherty.Great British BakePresenter Noel Fielding was also a frequent visitor to the bar.

In February 2008, a fire broke out in Camden Market, which spread and damaged the Hawley Arms. Musicians such as British rock band Razorlight held benefit concerts to raise money for its repairs, and it eventually reopened in October of the same year.

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