One of the filming locations (West Princes Street, Glasgow) is a short walk from the location of another notorious murder, that of Pierre Emile L'Angelier who was poisoned with arsenic in 1857, as told in the David Lean's 1950 film Madeleine.
In the very first scene of the very first episode, we see Evans standing on the gallows and the hangman asks if he had any last words. This never happened, and is but a fanciful creation for the purposes of adding to the drama. Evans was hanged by Albert Pierrepoint, assisted by Syd Dernley. Both attest in their autobiographies that no such exchange took place. Unlike hanging in the US, where the crime and sentence are read out with the condemned standing with the noose around their neck, the British method of hanging was designed to be as quick as possible, indeed, Pierrepoint could enter the cell and have the condemned man or woman dead at the end of a rope within 10 seconds.
In fact West Princes Street is in an area known as 'the Square Mile of Murder' and there is a book by Jack House of that name which details the Madeleine Smith case referred to above which was famous for the 'Not Proven' verdict
However that book recounts the more relevant murder in that very Glasgow Street the Oscar Slater case - a very famous Scottish miscarriage of justice ( righted in campaign by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) among others) Slater, a German Jewish immigrant was extradited from the USA to stand trial for the murder of rich spinster, Marion Gilchrist in 1908 at her home at 49 West Princes Street - where Rillington Place filming took place
Jodie Comer and Nico Mirallegro previously starred together in My Mad Fat Diary (2013)
Remake of "10 Rillington Place" of 1971, starring Richard Attenborough.