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.
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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
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