CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Brave volunteers who risked their lives to bring down the drug gangs

Legends (Netflix) 

Rating – four out of five stars  

Death is never the beginning of the real story. So often in crime dramas, the script starts with a body — a corpse in the woods, a gangland assassination, a million variations on a murderous theme.

Neil Forsyth’s impassioned anti-drugs thriller Legends opens with a double death in 1990, as a schoolboy on a Liverpool council estate is cajoled into trying heroin at a nightclub . . . while on the opposite end of the social spectrum, a Cabinet minister’s daughter dabbles with opium in digs at Oxford University.

For both teenagers, the consequences are

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