Justice for Julie

Sheridan Smith plays a mum who fought to see her daughter’s killer jailed...

-  IAN MACEWAN, VICTORIA WILSON

I FOUGHT THE LAW Sun & Mon, 9pm, ITV1 Drama (box set, ITVX)

After nurse Ann Ming’s 22-year-old daughter Julie Hogg went missing in 1989, shocking failures in the police investigation were followed by the discovery that she’d been murdered.

The prime suspect, Billy Dunlop, was acquitted, but despite him later confessing, an 800-year-old ‘double jeopardy’ law prevented him from being put on trial again.