In Denial of Murder
2004
Genre: Crime
Runtime: 120 min
Average vote: 6
Release date: 2004-02-29
Director: David Richards
Writer: Neil McKay
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:
Stephen Tompki...
as
Don Hale
Jason Watkins
as
Stephen Downing
Caroline Catz
as
Wendy Sewell
David Troughton
as
Ray Downing
June Watson
as
Nita Downing
Lisa Millett
as
Christine Down...
Judy Flynn
as
Kath Hale
Wayne Foskett
as
David Sewell
Jennifer Henne...
as
Jackie Dunn
Neil Boorman
as
Ron Duggins
Malcolm Raeburn
as
Adrian Duggins
Andrea Mason
as
Lesley Shooter
Ewan Hooper
as
Charles Hale
Jeanne Hepple
as
Doreen Hale
Bill Rodgers
as
Reg Ollerenshaw
Richard Standi...
as
Roy Eyre
Ruth Mitchell
as
Christine Smith
Bobby Knutt
as
Ernie Charlesw...
Brian Southwood
as
Eric Clough
Ryan Sampson
as
Marcus Edwards
Luke Gell
as
Stephen Downin...
Helen Atkins
as
Amanda Hatfield
Chris Brailsfo...
as
Chief Constabl...
Roger Brierley
as
Lord Pill
Tom Chadbon
as
Ed Fitzgerald ...
Brendan Charle...
as
Prison Officer
Deirdre Doone
as
Mrs Justice Ha...
Hazel Douglas
as
Mrs Hallam
Stephanie Fend
as
Heidi Warringt...
Dave Hill
as
Norman Taylor
Simon Molloy
as
Julian Bevan
Paul Opacic
as
Detective
Andrew Readman
as
Det Supt Stokes
Irene Skilling...
as
Madge Crawshaw
Robert Stone
as
Minder
Kate Wood
as
Social Worker
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