{"id":50630,"date":"2024-05-02T11:21:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T09:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2034531"},"modified":"2024-05-02T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T10:45:20","slug":"sheridan-smith-leads-i-fought-the-law-about-repeal-of-double-jeopardy-law","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/sheridan-smith-leads-i-fought-the-law-about-repeal-of-double-jeopardy-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheridan Smith leads I Fought the Law about repeal of double jeopardy law"},"content":{"rendered":"

The series comes from All Creatures Great and Small screenwriter Jamie Crichton. <\/p>

By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 02 May 2024 at 09:21 AM<\/p>

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Sheridan Smith has been cast in a brand new ITV drama I Fought the Law, which will be based on the real-life story of a mother\u2019s determination to change the double jeopardy law and see her daughter\u2019s murderer brought to justice.<\/p>\n

Smith will play Ann Ming in the series from screenwriter Jamie Crichton (All Creatures Great and Small<\/a>), which will be based on the book For the Love of Julie<\/a>, written by Ming, who is also a consultant on the series.<\/p>\n

The series will recount how Ming battled for 15 years after her daughter Julie, who was a mother to a three-year-old, Kevin, and married to husband Andrew, disappeared after a late shift at a local pizza parlour in November 1989.<\/p>\n

Eighty days later, in January 1990, Ming found Julie\u2019s body concealed in the bathroom of her terraced house, in spite of extensive searches of the property by police forensics teams.<\/p>\n

When Julie\u2019s murderer was controversially acquitted following two mistrials, Ming took on the Criminal Justice System, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Government and more to get justice.<\/p>\n