Justice for Julie

A dramatisation of a courageous mother's fight to bring her daughter's killer to trial.

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She's no stranger to portraying real people seeking British justice after terrible crimes have left them aggrieved or grieving. In I Fought the Law, Sheridan Smith plays Ann Ming, the British woman who fought for nearly 30 years to change the double-jeopardy law so that the man who confessed to killing her 22-year-old daughter Julie could be charged. Two juries had been unable to reach a verdict before he confessed.

The four-part series is based on Ming’s book about her struggle,