Released:
2004-02-29

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.

Director:
David Richards

Runtime:
2h 0min

Genre:
Crime

• Cast:
• 
  Stephen Tompkinson
  as
  Don Hale
• 
  Jason Watkins
  as
  Stephen Downing
• 
  Caroline Catz
  as
  Wendy Sewell
• 
  David Troughton
  as
  Ray Downing
• 
  June Watson
  as
  Nita Downing