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Ann Ming |
23 October 2006 |
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In November 1989, a young woman, Julie Hogg, was murdered on Teeside. After three months it was Julie’s mother, Ann Ming, who found her body stuffed behind a bath panel in Julie's flat.
Billy Dunlop was charged with murder and tried twice, but on each occasion the jury failed to reach a verdict and he was formally acquitted in 1991. Later he admitted he was guilty but, under the 800-year-old double jeopardy law, he could not be tried again on the same charge because he had already been acquitted.
Angered by what she regarded as a failure of the legal system, Ann Ming spent years campaigning for justice for her daughter. Finally, after a change in the double jeopardy law in 2005, Dunlop was jailed for life for Julie Hogg’s murder earlier this month.
On the eve of a BBC1 documentary about the case, Jenni Murray talks to Ann Ming about her 17 year battle to bring about Dunlop’s conviction.
BBC 1 “One Life” documentary – Getting Away with Murder – BBC1 Wednesday Oct 25th 2006 at 10.40pm.Suzy Lamplugh Trust
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