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

• David RichardsDirector
• Neil McKayWriter

Release date

February 29, 2004

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h

Genres

Crime