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First Look Reveals Sheridan Smith as Ann Ming in ITV’s I Fought The Law

Arriving this autumn on ITV and STV platforms before streaming on ITVX and STV Player, the four-part drama recounts Ming’s decades-long fight to overturn Britain’s double jeopardy law.

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Overview

  • ITV and STV unveiled first-look images and hosted press screenings in London for I Fought The Law, showcasing Sheridan Smith as campaigner Ann Ming.
  • Smith described embodying Ming’s trauma as “emotionally taxing” and said she was a “shaking mess” by the end of nine weeks of filming.
  • Based on Ming’s memoir For the Love of Julie, the series follows her 15-year campaign to overturn the double jeopardy law after her daughter Julie Hogg’s 1989 murder and William Dunlop’s subsequent retrial.
  • I Fought The Law arrives this autumn on ITV1 and STV, will stream on ITVX and STV Player, and will be accompanied by the documentary I Fought The Law: The Ann Ming Story.
  • Ming’s successful advocacy led to her daughter’s killer being retried and jailed and paved the way for at least 15 other retrials, including convictions in the Stephen Lawrence case.