36% The Guilty Innocent with Christopher Eccleston
Network:Sky History
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S01E02 - "James Hanratty"
Aired on May 21, 2024, 8:00 PM
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Description
The Guilty Innocent with Christopher EcclestonĂ‚Â is a gripping new series that explores some of the biggest miscarriages of justice in history. Each meticulously researched episode will see EMMY award-winning actor Christopher Eccleston lead an in-depth contemporary investigation into some of the world's most infamous cases of wrongful convictions.Using archive footage, talking head interviews with historical experts and reconstruction, each exciting close-ended episode will bring to life these fascinating stories and explore why and how the system got the wrong person and what it says about our world today.Ă‚Â
Episodes (1 Season · 2 Episodes)
E1
George Davis
50 years since George Davis' arrest, Christopher Eccleston talks to those who campaigned tirelessly for his release - before interviewing the man himself.
May 14, 2024
60 min
E2
James Hanratty
The actor retraces the extraordinary twists-and-turns of the case of James Hanratty, and the evidence which put Hanratty's neck in the hangman's noose in April 1962 - one of the last men to suffer the fate in Britain. The event helped launch a concerted campaign to end capital punishment in the UK.
May 21, 2024
60 min
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