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Movie · 2004

In Denial of Murder

Released 29 February 2004 More from 2004 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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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How old were they?

Oldest first
Ewan Hooper
as Charles Hale
68
Roger Brierley
as Lord Pill
68
Dave Hill
as Norman Taylor
58
David Troughton
as Ray Downing
53
Stephen Tompkinson
as Don Hale
38
Jason Watkins
as Stephen Downing
37
Andrew Readman
as Det Supt Stokes
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
31years between the oldest and youngest billed
68Ewan Hooper — oldest on the call sheet
37Jason Watkins — youngest billed
54average age of the credited cast
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