US EditionI Fought The Law Cast on ITV as Sheridan Smith Leads Stars in New True Crime Drama
Ann Ming's decade-long campaign led to reform of the 800-year-old double jeopardy law after her daughter's killer was acquitted twice despite confessing, highlighting legal challenges in justice.
- On August 31, ITV debuts I Fought The Law, a four-part drama filmed across North East England last year, starring BAFTA-winning actress Sheridan Smith as Teesside mother Ann Ming.
- Ann Ming campaigned for more than a decade, petitioning politicians and lobbying the media with support from her husband Charlie Ming to overturn the double-jeopardy law, taking the fight to the House of Lords.
- Julie Hogg vanished from her Billingham, Teesside home and was later found murdered, with William 'Billy' Dunlop identified as a suspect who confessed while serving prison time for other offences.
- Ann's campaign reached the House of Lords and resulted in a change to the centuries-old double jeopardy rule, and she was awarded an MBE for her bravery and public impact.
- After an emotional Durham screening on August 28, Sheridan Smith, BAFTA-winning actress, said the role was one of the hardest jobs in her career.
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On 16th November 1989, Ann Ming made a terrible discovery. Two months after her 22-year-old daughter, Julie Hogg, went missing, Ming found her body concealed beneath the bath in Hogg’s home – a hiding place inexplicably overlooked by the forensic team who had investigated her disappearance. Worse still, she had to watch the man responsible, Billy Dunlop, escape a prison sentence during two separate trials and then openly boast about committing t…
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darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.ukSheridan Smith: Playing Ann Ming in new ITV drama was hardest role of my career
Sheridan Smith has said taking on the role of Ann Ming, who campaigned for justice for her daughter, is the hardest role she has ever played.
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