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.
as Don Hale
as Stephen Downing
as Wendy Sewell
as Ray Downing
as Nita Downing
as Christine Downing
as Kath Hale
as David Sewell
as Jackie Dunn
as Ron Duggins
as Adrian Duggins
as Lesley Shooter
as Charles Hale
as Doreen Hale
as Reg Ollerenshaw
as Roy Eyre
as Christine Smith
as Ernie Charlesworth
as Eric Clough
as Marcus Edwards
as Stephen Downing, aged 17
as Amanda Hatfield
as Chief Constable Wood
as Lord Pill
as Ed Fitzgerald QC
as Prison Officer
as Mrs Justice Hallett
as Mrs Hallam
as Heidi Warrington
as Norman Taylor
as Julian Bevan
as Detective
as Det Supt Stokes
as Madge Crawshaw
as Minder
as Social Worker
