In Denial of Murder
- 2004-02-29
- Crime
- Jason Watkins, Tom Chadbon, Andrew Readman, Lisa Millett, Ewan Hooper, Caroline Catz, Bill Rodgers, Bobby Knutt, Roger Brierley, Brian Southwood, Stephen Tompkinson, Simon Molloy, Ryan Sampson, June Watson, Ruth Mitchell, Brendan Charleson, Wayne Foskett, David Troughton, Helen Atkins, Robert Stone, Andrea Mason, Dave Hill, Judy Flynn, Jennifer Hennessy, Neil Boorman, Hazel Douglas, Irene Skillington, Paul Opacic, Malcolm Raeburn, Chris Brailsford, Stephanie Fend, Richard Standing, Jeanne Hepple, Luke Gell, Deirdre Doone
- 2 h. 0 min.
- 6.0/10
- 1
Overview:
Dramatisation of the Stephen Downing case which involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32 year old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in central England. Following a campaign by a local newspaper, his conviction was overturned in 2002, after Downing had served 27 years in prison. The case is thought to be the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history, and attracted worldwide media attention.