Sebastian Madrigal is a character appearing in the episode Picture of Innocence of the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders.
Seb is the son of analog photography shop runner Headley Madrigal, with Seb always wanting to go digital, but Seb's photographs were only about his regular meals. He was quiet and peculiar, with a relationship with Philomena Bell he recently ended. The reason would be revealed as him seeing women being procured for scanty photographs by the local community, Women Sev wanted and became obsessed over to the point of harassing them and following them around. One woman in question was Imogen, the fiancé of internal affairs policeman Martin Spellman, who went by the alias "Chantelle". Even in spite of being kicked out of events involving the women, Seb was furious Imogen's photos were racy, so he decided to take it out on the men Seb believed made her salacious.
Seb killed Philly's father Lionel Bell and rival digital photographer Steve Bright by choking them with their own camera equipment, then left film of the sorts of formats each hated in their mouths, filled with images of Chantelle. DCI Tom Barnaby was continuously framed, as Spellman made dinner reservations with Imogen under the Barnabys' names as a joke, which Seb was led to believe. Barnaby was seen in a doctored photo with him and his former girlfriend, Philly's mother Marion Bell, which was spliced between a photo of Philly with her mum and Barnaby being forcibly kissed by an employee at Seb's favorite sustainable food store under a "Kissogram" ruse. As Spellman would take the investigation over, Seb used this to lie he had evidence against Barnaby. Instead, he presented Spellman a CD montage of the photo evidence of his crimes, lambasting Spellman over Imogen's photos before being near killing him with a mallet in his home, which Barnaby had his fingerprints on and whose warrant card would've been at the scene to frame him.
Seb was swiftly stopped and arrested, then, with the promise of meat-free meals in prison, fully confessed, even revealing Spellman's ruse of the dinners, which Spellman nervously confessed to himself. The scandal shut Headley's shop down for good.
Victims[]
- Imogen - Stalked and harassed.
- Lionel Bell - Strangled with the cord of his light meter, then left a memory card with promotional modelling images in his mouth.
- Steve Bright - Strangled with the strap of his camera, then left a roll of analog camera film with promotional modelling images in his mouth.
- Martin Spellman - Lured to his dark room, then struck with a mallet once and attempted to kill by striking again; Seb was arrested.
- Tom Barnaby - Stalked, planted false evidence to incriminate him, and attempted to frame for murder; he was exonerated.