In Denial of Murder (2004)
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.
Release Date: 2004-02-29
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- Language: en
- Runtime: 120
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Stephen Downing
Wendy Sewell
Don Hale
Ray Downing
Nita Downing
Christine Downing
Kath Hale
David Sewell
Jackie Dunn
Charles Hale
Ernie Charlesworth
Marcus Edwards
Chief Constable Wood
Lord Pill
Ed Fitzgerald QC
Prison Officer
Norman Taylor
Julian Bevan
Det Supt Stokes