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In Denial of Murder

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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.

Date: 02/29/2004

Rating: 6.0

Cast: Stephen Tompkinson, Jason Watkins, Caroline Catz, David Troughton, June Watson, Lisa Millett, Judy Flynn, Wayne Foskett, Jennifer Hennessy, Neil Boorman, Malcolm Raeburn, Andrea Mason, Ewan Hooper, Jeanne Hepple, Bill Rodgers, Richard Standing, Ruth Mitchell, Bobby Knutt, Brian Southwood, Ryan Sampson, Luke Gell, Helen Atkins, Chris Brailsford, Roger Brierley, Tom Chadbon, Brendan Charleson, Deirdre Doone, Hazel Douglas, Stephanie Fend, Dave Hill, Simon Molloy, Paul Opacic, Andrew Readman, Irene Skillington, Robert Stone, Kate Wood

Stephen Tompkinson