In Denial of Murder

In Denial of Murder (2004)

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.

Director: David Richards

Casts

	Stephen Tompkinson 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 Downing
	Judy Flynn as Kath Hale
	Wayne Foskett as David Sewell
	Jennifer Hennessy 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 Standing as Roy Eyre
	Ruth Mitchell as Christine Smith
	Bobby Knutt as Ernie Charlesworth
	Brian Southwood as Eric Clough
	Ryan Sampson as Marcus Edwards
	Luke Gell as Stephen Downing, aged 17
	Helen Atkins as Amanda Hatfield
	Chris Brailsford as Chief Constable Wood
	Roger Brierley as Lord Pill
	Tom Chadbon as Ed Fitzgerald QC
	Brendan Charleson as Prison Officer
	Deirdre Doone as Mrs Justice Hallett
	Hazel Douglas as Mrs Hallam
	Stephanie Fend as Heidi Warrington
	Dave Hill as Norman Taylor
	Simon Molloy as Julian Bevan
	Paul Opacic as Detective
	Andrew Readman as Det Supt Stokes
	Irene Skillington as Madge Crawshaw
	Robert Stone as Minder
	Kate Wood as Social Worker

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