In Denial of Murder
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.
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
Neil Boorman
Ron Duggins
Malcolm Raeburn
Adrian Duggins
Andrea Mason
Lesley Shooter
Ewan Hooper
Charles Hale
Jeanne Hepple
Doreen Hale
Bill Rodgers
Reg Ollerenshaw
Richard Standing
Roy Eyre
Ruth Mitchell
Christine Smith
Bobby Knutt
Ernie Charlesworth
Brian Southwood
Eric Clough
Ryan Sampson
Marcus Edwards
Luke Gell
Stephen Downing, aged 17
Helen Atkins
Amanda Hatfield
Chris Brailsford
Chief Constable Wood
Roger Brierley
Lord Pill
Tom Chadbon
Ed Fitzgerald QC
Brendan Charleson
Prison Officer
Deirdre Doone
Mrs Justice Hallett
Hazel Douglas
Mrs Hallam
Stephanie Fend
Heidi Warrington
Dave Hill
Norman Taylor
Simon Molloy
Julian Bevan
Paul Opacic
Detective
Andrew Readman
Det Supt Stokes
Irene Skillington
Madge Crawshaw
Robert Stone
Minder
Kate Wood
Social Worker