Colin Stagg has admitted that he feels he comes across as "creepy" in Channel 4's Deceit, which dramatises the awful honeytrap plot he was subjected to 30 years ago in a bid to snare him for Rachel Nickell's murder.
Stagg, who was 29 when he was wrongly arrested for the killing, has said the drama has just used "dramatic license" and conceded that his portrayal was "roughly" correct.
In 1992, Rachel Nickell was murdered in a frenzied attack in front of her two-year-old child on Wimbledon common, leading to a huge police investigation.
The Met Police questioned 32 men in connection with the murder, but focused in on Stagg after his name was put forward on Crimewatch.
A female undercover police officer went on to contact Stagg and feign romantic interest in him in order to extract information. While he played along with her fantasies, he never admitted to the killing.
His case was thrown out at the Old Bailey by the judge, who said that police had attempted to incriminate Stagg with "deceptive conduct of the grossest kind".
In 2006, convicted murderer Robert Napper, who was already serving time at Broadmoor for the killings of Samantha Bisset and her four-year-old daughter Jazmine, was found guilty of Rachel's murder.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain today, he told hosts Ranvir Singh and Charlotte Hawkins that he "comes across quite well" in the retelling of his story in the new drama, but says "there a few items which [he] can argue against".
Ranvir questioned: "Is there a bit of you that thinks you come across as creepy? I read that somewhere."
"Yeah, I think that's just dramatic licence, really, for the programme," he said. "I never came across like that [in real life] at all.
"The way they portrayed me, I was roughly like that. A bit awkward and shy and everything."
Opening up about what it had been like that the time to be accused of something he hadn't done, he said: "When I was inside prison I thought that was going to be the end of my life.
"Looking back on it now, it was just an incident that happened in my life. You just forget about it."
Asked whether he is able to forgive the police for what they had done, Stagg said: "I don't blame the police at all. All they were doing was doing their job and they got wrapped up in all the false statements that they were given."
He added: "I am over [what happened] - I don't see myself as a victim."
*Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV
