Here is more information on each character to get you interested... Dr Joe O'Loughlin played by Aidan Turner Joe had even worked with Bobby as a child in social services, not that he remembered, filling in for a colleague one day in a good deed that wasn't about to go unpunished.

Anjli Mohindra as DS Devi and Shaun Parkes as DI Ruiz in The Suspect. (Image credit: ITV ) DI Ruiz played by Shaun Parkes You see, Bobby's father died by suicide after being accused of abusing the young child, with Joe among the names who had signed off on the probable cause of Bobby's mental health issues. As Joe said himself, he'd 'condemned his dad to being a paedophile'. Yes, The Suspect looks like it's going to be a gripping watch! In it, we see Aidan Turner's character in his work and home life, as he slowly starts to delve deeper and deeper into what's happened as he gets involved in Catherine's case. Previously working with The Sun Online , Yahoo , Metro.co.uk and Independent IE amongst others, she joined the Digital Spy team from 2021-2023 as Deputy TV Editor (Maternity cover). Speaking of Joe's early onset Parkinson’s Aidan said: “When we meet Joe, he has just been diagnosed with Parkinson’s. So, you wonder if what’s going on with him is part of the condition. Has he been really thrown by the diagnosis and that’s why he’s making these decisions? Or is it a veil to cover something else?

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He'd also somewhat healed his issue with DI Ruiz, with the potential of them working together or even becoming friends in the future… Lord knows the detective needs some help.

Other names include Bobby Schofield( Time), Bronagh Waugh ( Ridley), and Angela Griffin ( White Lines), so it's a really great cast! Turns out, the psychiatrists weren't entirely wrong. Bobby was being horrifically abused as part of a paedophile ring… only it was his mother orchestrating it, not his dad.But from his own, less than ethical investigation, Joe knew there was more to it, and eventually discovered Bobby Moran was actually Bobby Morgan, who had previously lived in Liverpool, where Catherine had lived, and he had trained to become a psychologist.