In Denial of Murder

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.

Directed by David Richards

Top cast

Stephen Tompkinson

Don Hale

Jason Watkins

Stephen Downing

Caroline Catz

Wendy Sewell

David Troughton

Ray Downing

June Watson

Nita Downing

Lisa Millett

Christine Downing

Judy Flynn

Kath Hale

Wayne Foskett

David Sewell

Jennifer Hennessy

Jackie Dunn

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Neil Boorman

Ron Duggins

M

Malcolm Raeburn

Adrian Duggins

A

Andrea Mason

Lesley Shooter

Ewan Hooper

Charles Hale

J

Jeanne Hepple

Doreen Hale

Bill Rodgers

Reg Ollerenshaw

R

Richard Standing

Roy Eyre

R

Ruth Mitchell

Christine Smith

Bobby Knutt

Ernie Charlesworth

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Brian Southwood

Eric Clough

Ryan Sampson

Marcus Edwards

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