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Killed by My Debt is a 2018 BBC Three drama film based on the life of Jerome Rogers who died by suicide aged twenty, having accrued debts of over £1,000. The debt was executed by Andrew Maughan of The London Borough of Camden, & Mike Marrs of Marston Holdings Ltd, stemming from two unpaid £65 traffic fines. [1]
In January 2015, Jerome Rogers, a popular nineteen year old from a council estate, finally got what he’d been working for – a new motorbike and his first real job, as a courier. But in the hands of bailiffs, two £65 traffic fines rose to over a thousand pounds.
- Joseph Bullman
- 58 min
- 2
BBC3's new drama Killed by My Debt tells the true story of Jerome Rogers, a bike courier who took his own life in 2016 after accruing a series of fines that seemed insurmountable.
Killed by My Debt: Directed by Joseph Bullman. With Tamara Alexander, Owen Brazendale, Juliet Cowan, Calvin Demba. Jerome manages to get a motorbike and a job as a courier when he gets two traffic fines and bailiffs start calling.
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- Biography, Drama
- Joseph Bullman
- 2018-05
Killed By My Debt exposes flaws in the UK bailiff industry and the cruelty of zero hours contracts. BBC3’s new factual drama is a heart-breaking glimpse into one young man’s torment that...
- Ellie Harrison
- 5 min
Writer Will Millard visits the treehouse-dwelling Korowai tribe in Papua, Indonesia. The story of 19-year-old Jerome Rogers, who found himself under a crushing debt.
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Jul 20, 2018 Full Review Ellie Harrison Radio Times Killed By My Debt is an overwhelmingly bleak yet poignant film that vitally humanises a story which is so often told in statistics.
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