Mother of Jeffrey Dahmer victim Tony Hughes hits out at Netflix series

Tony Hughes is the victim at the centre of one of the most compelling episodes of Netflix's true-crime series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. The 31-year-old was an aspiring model and was heading for a successful career in front of the camera.

Now, Hughes' mother Shirley Hughes, has hit out at the streaming giant and the production claiming that the series doesn't offer an accurate portrayal of what happened. Speaking to The Guardian, Ms Hughes said that she hadn’t seen all of the show, which focuses one episode on her son, who was deaf and just 31 years old at the time of his slaying in 1991. Nonetheless, she’d concluded that “it didn’t happen like that”.

“I don’t see how they can do that,” Hughes told The Guardian, before adding that it was difficult to talk about Tony’s murder and politely ending the call. “I don’t see how they can use our names and put stuff out like that out there.”

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Those behind the show, including creator Ryan Murphy and lead actor Evan Peters, have insisted that the show strived to put the victims' stories and their families' stories at the centre of their production. Instead, they have faced backlash and criticism for not consulting family members first.

The cousin of victim Errol Lindsey, Eric Perry, wrote on Twitter that his relatives found out about the series when Netflix released it. Perry says that Netflix wasn’t required to consult victims’ families because the events it portrays are public record, but the way things went down re-traumatised the loved ones of those murdered by Dahmer.

Perry’s cousin and Lindsey’s sister, Rita Isbell, who is portrayed as calling Peters’s Dahmer “Satan” in a courtroom