Tracie Andrews – better known as the road rage killer – is the focus of a new Channel 5 drama Under Suspicion, which will leave viewers asking where she is now.
The feature-length film, which airs on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, is described as a “gripping” dramatisation of a true crime that lives on in our memory as one of the most shocking in recent history. But for some, the brutal crime was a reality, not just a news story.
In December 1996, Tracie walked into a police station in Worcestershire, the apparent traumatised victim and sole witness to her fiancé Lee Harvey’s murder. The 25-year-old had been killed on a dark country lane following what, she claimed, to be a terrifying road-rage attack.
But Tracie, who was 27 at the time and a mum to a young child, was lying. There was no other car “driving aggressively”… And no confrontation with another man “with starring eyes”.
In 1997, a jury convicted Tracie Andrews of murdering Lee Harvey and inventing a fictional “road-rage” attacker to cover her tracks. Tracie stabbed Lee 42 times with a pen knife, including once in the back as he tried to fight her off.
Although a judge sentenced her to life in prison, she was released in 2011. She is now free, and has a new life, new identity, and new marriage. All things Lee didn’t get the chance to have. So where is killer Tracie Andrews now?
A judge sentenced Tracie Andrews to life in prison (Credit: Channel 5)
How long was Tracie Andrews in jail for?
This December marks 30 years since Tracie Andrews murdered her fiancé Lee Harvey in cold blood. The case dominated every newspaper headline in the country. At the time, she claimed she was a “celebrity victim”. But she, in fact, the killer.
There followed a public appeal and a highly-publicised trial. On July 29, 1997, Tracie Andrews was found guilty of the murder of local bus driver Lee Harvey. A judge sentenced her to life in prison.
However she only served 14 years before being released on parole. After serving her 14-year minimum tariff, she was released from Askham Grange open prison in 2011. She was 42 at the time, and banned from travelling within 25 miles of Lee’s family without supervision.
The Telegraph reported that the former hairdresser walked free from prison “as unrepentant as the day she was jailed“.
Tracie Andrews wanted to be famous, and got her wish (Credit: Channel 5)
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