Overview

• The four-part drama tells Ann Ming’s 15-year campaign to change the double jeopardy rule so her daughter’s killer could face a new trial.
• William ‘Billy’ Dunlop was retried in 2006 under the amended law, convicted of Julie Hogg’s murder, and given a life sentence with a 17-year minimum term.
• After serving his minimum term, the Parole Board recommended in March that Dunlop move to an open prison, but Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood blocked the transfer on public-protection grounds.
• Dunlop remains in closed custody, a decision the Ming family supported, saying victims had been put at the heart of the system.
• Sheridan Smith posted that she was “absolutely overwhelmed” by responses to the series, which aired episodes on Aug 31, Sept 1 and Sept 7, with the finale scheduled for Sept 8.