Movie

In Denial of Murder

2004★ 6.5 · 22h 0mCrime

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.

Cast

Tom Chadbon
as Ed Fitzgerald QC

Jason Watkins
as Stephen Downing

Caroline Catz
as Wendy Sewell

Stephen Tompkinson
as Don Hale

David Troughton
as Ray Downing

Jennifer Hennessy
as Jackie Dunn

Lisa Millett
as Christine Downing

Hazel Douglas
as Mrs Hallam

Roger Brierley
as Lord Pill

Wayne Foskett
as David Sewell

Dave Hill
as Norman Taylor

Ryan Sampson
as Marcus Edwards