Jane Andrews led a privileged life, from designing children's clothes for Marks and Spencer to becoming Sarah, the Duchess of York's, dresser - and no one would have ever imagined the crime she ended committing.
However, with an emotional past, a failed marriage and mental health problems, the former high-flying fashion designer from Lincolnshire committed murder in 2000.
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In what some assume to be a fit of rage after her then-boyfriend Thomas Ashley Cressman told her that he had no longer planned to marry her, she hit him with a cricket bat and then stabbed him to death.
The new ITV documentary Fergie's Killer Dresser: The Jane Andrews Story, which will air on Monday, February, 14, will take a fresh look at the case.
Using interviews with Andrews' family and psychiatrist, the documentary examines the case and asks whether she was acting in self defence and whether the crime was manslaughter and not murder.
Early life
Andrews was born in Lincolnshire where she excelled at grammar school but throughout her teenage years she suffered from mental health problems, including depression, panic attacks and an eating disorder.
Aged just 15 she attempted suicide and at the age of 17 she had an abortion, which she later said was traumatising and very difficult.
After attending Grimsby College of Art, where she studied fashion, Jane became a children's clothes designer for Marks and Spencer.
Royal role and marriage
At 21 she became the personal dresser for Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, and was able to climb the social ranks with her impressive salary and new lifestyle.
Two years later she married Christopher Dunn-Butler who was an IBM executive and who was 20 years older than her and five years later they divorced.
After Christopher, Andrews dated Dimitri Horne and after they broke up she trashed and ruined the flat they shared, reported the Daily Mail.
In 1997 was she was dismissed as the Duchess of York's royal dresser due to cost-cutting from Buckingham Palace and although heartbroken by the loss of her job, BirminghamLive reported that she remained close friends with Sarah, Duchess of York.
Thomas Cressman murder case
After losing her royal job, Andrews met Thomas Ashley Cressman and moved in with him. In September 2000 the pair went on holiday to Italy and Spain where she was expecting Thomas to propose, but he instead told her that he had no plans to marry her.
Returning to their London flat the couple had a very heated argument and Thomas rang the police saying "somebody is going to get hurt" but no officers were sent to the flat.
Thomas was later discovered at the flat beaten and stabbed to death.
A police hunt led to Cornwall where Andrews was found in her car after taking an overdose. She was arrested and charged with Thomas' murder and she claimed that Thomas had been abusive towards her.
On April 23, 2001, Andrews went to trial at the Old Bailey. Prosecutors said the motive for the killing was a woman scorned. Andrews, however, claimed that her partner had been abusive during their relationship
The jury took 12 hours to debate the case and Andrews was ultimately convicted of murder and sent to life in prison, with a minimum of 12 years, in 2001.
Prison escape
In 2009 she escaped prison and was found three days later in a hotel room with her family, just six miles away from the prison.
Later in 2015, she was released from prison early and in 2018 was recalled back after being falsely accused of harassing a former boyfriend.
An investigation found no evidence of the harassment and Andrews was re-released from prison in 2019.
Andrews on the documentary
Andrews now lives in Lincolnshire and spoke to The Sunday Telegraph about the new documentary.
She said: "I was horrified. I knew it would drag everything up again, just as my life was settling down into something like normality. I will always regret what I did – it was a terrible thing to do. But I deserve to live the rest of my life without always looking over my shoulder."
Fergie's Killer Dresser: The Jane Andrews Story will air on ITV on Monday, February, 14 at 10.45pm.
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