The release of a documentary on the 1996 murder of 17-year-old tourist Rebecca Middleton drew no comment yesterday from Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy, who controversially denied permission for the show’s production crew to film on the Island.

That decision earlier this year, which was justified by Senator Fahy on the basis of “reputational risks” to the Island, is included in the 45-minute production, created as part of the Murder in Paradise series by Investigation Discovery.

The episode was carried on Saturday night by North American broadcasters.

It features harrowing re-enactments of Ms Middleton’s July, 1996 murder, along with interviews with Ms Middleton’s parents, plus Rick Meens and his daughter Jasmine, with whom Ms Middleton was staying on the Island, and other locals — including Dana Rawlins, who was part of the group of friends that discovered Ms Middleton’s badly injured body on Ferry Road, St George’s.

Mr Meens yesterday declined to discuss the episode as he had not seen it.

However, it includes an interview with former Commissioner of Police Colin Coxall, who expressed little surprise that the Canadian Cineflex crew were denied work permits in April.