Shell Dockley

Shell Dockley
Bad Girls character
Shell Dockley in Series 1 of Bad Girls
First appearance	"Them and Us" (#1.1)
Last appearance	"Series 5, Episode 4"
Created by	Maureen Chadwick Ann McManus
Portrayed by	Debra Stephenson
Information
Aliases	Nikki Wade, Naughty Nikki
Gender	Female
Occupation	Chef, cleaner, dancer, Top Dog of G-Wing at HMP Larkhall (?-1999)
Children	Kayley Dockley (daughter) Dena Dockley (daughter) Ronan Beckham Dockley (son)

Michelle "Shell" Dockley is a fictional character from the award-winning prison drama series Bad Girls. She is portrayed by British actress Debra Stephenson. Shell was one of the lead characters in the series. Shell appeared from the first episode in Series 1 until the last episode of Series 3, and returned for the first four episodes of Series 5.

Shell Dockley was sentenced to life imprisonment for torturing and murdering a girl named Lisa Simmonds, who had an affair with her boyfriend; she tied the girl up, tortured her and eventually set her on fire. Shell is violent and ruthless, and delights in acts of cruelty and torture; officers and prisoners alike call her a psychopath. She is a drug dealer and pusher, and has no real friends on the wing, except Daniella "Denny" Blood (Alicya Eyo), a relationship that also has a sexual side to it. Shell has an affair with corrupt and abusive principal officer Jim Fenner (Jack Ellis), a relationship which eventually went sour in Series 2 after Jim discovered that Shell had telephoned his wife Marilyn (Kim Taylforth) to hear him and Shell having sex. Jim responds by beating up Shell physically. Jim and Shell's relationship came to an end for good after she stabbed him with a broken bottle in the opening episode of Series 3, coming within a whisker of murdering him. In Series 2, Shell states that the judge who sentenced her to life imprisonment had called her "evil personified".

Shell was seen as Top Dog among the prisoners of G-Wing. She is first seen rehearsing for the prison's annual fashion show, which is soon cancelled. She is best friends with Denny, who is also her occasional lover. She is involved in a relationship with married officer Jim Fenner, who is also having an affair with Rachel Hicks (Joanne Froggatt), a young prisoner who Shell bullied. Eventually, Rachel commits suicide. When she discovers Zandra Plackett (Lara Cazalet) was blackmailing officer Lorna Rose (Luisa Bradshaw-White), she too began blackmailing Lorna and forced her to smuggle in drugs for her. Shell also made an enemy of religious prisoner Crystal Gordon (Sharon Duncan Brewster), but briefly became religious and together she and Crystal reported Lorna and got her sacked. Shell soon reverted to her old ways.