The Point of Regret (2011)
Yorkshire, 1978. A mother, father and their three year old son are brutally stabbed to death while they sleep. There is no motive. They were a model family. The nation is outraged by the senseless killings. Incredibly, the British public are overwhelmingly in favour of bringing back the death penalty to see justice carried out. Even more incredibly the killer, who is caught red-handed trying to drag the father's body out of the house, manages to hide the three year old's body in a place where the investigators, the police and even their dog teams would never find it. For months all the nation can talk about is the "Kid Killer" but, and this is the most incredible fact of all, not because he cold-bloodedly stabbed to death a three year old, his mother and his father, but because these innocent victims were also his family. The "Kid Killer" was their twelve year old son William.
Director: Simon Tate
![]() |
Christopher Hatherall as Ryan |
![]() |
Kai Roberts as (Voice) |
![]() |
Aj Nicol as William |
![]() |
Simone Macdonald as Call Girl #2 |
![]() |
Adam Boyle as Reporter #1 |
![]() |
Lucy Studd as Karen |
![]() |
Craig Rogers as Andy |
![]() |
Jonathan Kettleborough as Anchorman |
![]() |
Jessica Bayly as Call Girl |
![]() |
Siobhan Bermingham as Kat |
![]() |
Samuel Payne-Cheney as Young William |
![]() |
Hannah Tate as Young Ryan |
![]() |
Michael Westley as Karen's Father |
![]() |
Jenny Westley as Karen's Mother |
![]() |
Dean Ashton as Man in Dream |
![]() |
Martin Murphy as 1978 Reporter |
| Directing | Simon Tate | Director |
| Writing | Simon Tate | Writer |
| Production | Amanda Louise Jesson | Associate Producer |
| Production | Penny Tate | Producer |
| Production | Simon Tate | Producer |