TV writer Nigel McCrery has been credited with the “success and longevity” of Silent Witness by the show’s star Emilia Fox.
Former police officer McCrery created the forensics series Silent Witness and the cold case show New Tricks, and it was announced on Monday that he had died aged 71.
He disclosed last year that he was diagnosed with an unspecified terminal illness.
Fox, who took on the lead role in Silent Witness in 2004, wrote on Instagram that McCrery “brought something special to so many audiences around the world, and to those of us lucky enough to work on the show”.