Shell Dockley - Personality and Characterization

Personality and Characterization

Shell had life imprisonment for the murder and torture of a girl who had an affair with her boyfriend, by tying her up and setting her on fire (off-screen). She is violent and ruthless, and often called a psychopath by officers and prisoners alike, often tormenting the residents of G-Wing. She is a drug dealer and pusher, and has no real friends on the wing, except Denny Blood. She had an affair with abusive officer Jim Fenner which eventually came to an end, after she stabbed him with a broken bottle. In series 2, she states that the judge who sentenced her to life imprisonment had called her "evil personified".