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Ann Ming's persistent 17-year campaign led to the 2005 reform of England's double jeopardy law, enabling the 2006 murder conviction of Billy Dunlop for her daughter's 1989 death.
- On Sunday, August 31 ITV premiered the four-part drama I Fought The Law, retelling Ann Ming's campaign to overturn the double jeopardy rule and seek justice for her daughter.
- Ann Ming, campaigner, campaigned for 15 years to change England's 800-year-old double jeopardy law, prompting the 2001 Law Commission review that empowered the Court of Appeal to order retrials with new evidence.
- On November 16, 1989 Julie Hogg, victim , was murdered in her Billingham, County Durham home and found 80 days later by Ann Ming behind a bath panel, with forensic evidence linking neighbour William 'Billy' Dunlop.
- Dunlop was retried and ultimately convicted, pleading guilty in 2006 to Julie's murder and receiving a life sentence with a minimum term of 17 years; this year, a Parole Board recommendation was blocked by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood in April.
- Filmed across North East England last year, the four-part series starring Sheridan Smith joins ITV's true-crime dramas like White House Farm and The Long Shadow, available on ITVX.
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