ITV viewers who tuned into Sunday evening’s Vera were treated to the second feature-length instalment of the 13th series. This time around, Brenda Blethyn’s DCI Stanhope had to get to the bottom of a young girl’s death, stumbling across a murky past filled with lies. Gabi McSwain (played by Emily Kathryn) was the young girl who was found dead by the side of the railway after spending the past few months befriending Julia Sawalha’s Helen Rushden. The youngster had feigned that she was suffering from cancer prior to her grisly demise and had used the facade to lull Helen into a friendship. All o…
