Film
In Denial of Murder
- Director
- David Richards
- Year
- 2004
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.
Top cast
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
Directed by
David Richards
Written by
Neil McKay