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In Denial of Murder
In Denial of Murder
Release: 2004-02-29
·Runtime: 120m
·★ 6.0
Crime
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.
Cast
Hazel Douglas
as Mrs Hallam
Brendan Charleson
as Prison Officer
Dave Hill
as Norman Taylor
Bobby Knutt
as Ernie Charlesworth
Ryan Sampson
as Marcus Edwards
Andrew Readman
as Det Supt Stokes
Stephen Tompkinson
as Don Hale
Judy Flynn
as Kath Hale
Jason Watkins
as Stephen Downing
June Watson
as Nita Downing
Ewan Hooper
as Charles Hale
Tom Chadbon
as Ed Fitzgerald QC
Caroline Catz
as Wendy Sewell
David Troughton
as Ray Downing
Wayne Foskett
as David Sewell
Jennifer Hennessy
as Jackie Dunn
Chris Brailsford
as Chief Constable Wood
Roger Brierley
as Lord Pill
Lisa Millett
as Christine Downing
