♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ - Gary, it's starting.

- Wait, wait.

- Hey, but you're in my way.

- Well, if I want, if I were you- - You agree.

(knuckles knocking) (doorbell ringing) - We can't wait.

- Oh I'll get it, shall I?

Behave.

- I can't see.

- Oh, hi.

- Good afternoon.

My name's Marian, I live across the street.

- Oh nice to meet you, I'm Ann.

- The thing is, Billingham's a nice area.

I'm sure you're perfectly civil yourself, but ah, here it is.

(children chattering) As you can see, quite a few of the neighbours have already signed it.

- You're trying to get rid of us.

- It's not you, it's your husband.

All these foreigners pouring off the boats like rats.

Surely you coulda done better for yourself.

I think you'd be happier elsewhere, don't you?

(children chattering) - I can't believe this.

- That's called character, Ralph.

- Jerry?

- Sir.

- Things are jumping out.

- That's it.

(objects clattering) He's always been the same.

He's got no appreciation for the finer things in life.

- Says you.

(audience laughing) I bet you'd drink that water if you had.

(bell clanging) (dog barking) (soft uneasy music) - No, no I'm not having this.

- Honestly, look- - No.

- It's not worth it, I- - Hey, you can shove your petition up your ass.

And if you ever try anything like that again, you'll be sorry.

(soft uneasy music) - Keep it down, will you?

- I can live with you, hey?

- (chuckling) Hey.

- Sorry.

- Oh.

I think I like this side of you.

- [Ann] Maybe, maybe you'd better get used to it.

(bright gentle music) ♪ I've been looking so long at these pictures of you ♪ ♪ That I almost believe that they're real ♪ ♪ I've been living so long with my pictures of you ♪ ♪ That I almost believe ♪ ♪ That the pictures are all I can feel ♪ - You've no need to be nervous.

He's a very nice fella.

- Could be the spawn of Satan, for all I care, as long as he listens to what I have to say.

- You don't have to say anything.

That's why I'm here.

- Hello, follow me please.

- Thanks.

(soft expectant music) (bystanders chattering) - It's just round here.

- Let me do the talking.

- All right, all right.

Mrs.

Ming, Mr.

Ming, come on in.

Thanks Isabel, right.

- [Attorney] Jack, thanks for seeing us today.

I know how busy you are.

- Not at all, always a pleasure.

- [Attorney] So, as I mentioned on the phone- - This is our daughter, Mr.

Straw.

And this, this is the man who murdered her.

That's not an opinion, he confessed to it in a court of law.

- Yes, I've been following the case closely, Mrs.

Ming.

- Look, I am not happy with the perjury sentence, and I wanna know what you're gonna do about it.

- Well, there's not a great deal I can do about it, I'm afraid.

- Well then, something needs to be done about changing the double jeopardy law then, doesn't it?

- Double jeopardy is a very grey area, Mrs.

Ming.

- I'm not bothered what colour it is, I wanna know what you're gonna do.

Don't bother with that, there's no case like ours in that book or any other, for that matter, am I right?

- Well, as a matter of fact, you are.

Here's where things currently stand.

The Home Affairs Select Committee are recommending that the double jeopardy law be changed, and I've asked the Law Commission to undertake their own review.

But this may take years, I'm afraid.

- Well, we haven't got years.

Look, he'll be out before too long, and once he's out, it'll be bloody sight harder to get him put back in.

- It's a general principle of law-making in this country, that any change should only apply to the future, not the past.

So even if their recommendations are enacted, the chances of it being applied retrospectively to historic cases such as yours, pretty slender I'm afraid.

I'm sorry, I'm just being honest with you.

- Look, well tell me this.

What would you do, if you were in our situation?

- If you're to have any chance of success, you'll have to get the Law Commission on your side.

- All right, well give me the name of the person I need to speak to there then, please.

- You've got grit, I'll give you that.

- We've been wronged Jack, how can I stay silent?

- My advice, don't.

In fact, the louder you are, the better.

- Bloody hell, you just had the Home Secretary eating out of your hand.

- I don't know what all the fuss is about, he's just a man in a slightly better suit than yours.

(attorney laughing) - Good one, love.

- Have I missed anything?

- You must be joking.

I've seen encyclopaedias with less detail than this.

- [Ann] Let's just hope they get back to us quickly.

- I'm gonna go to bed.

What you doing?

- Oh, just some paperwork, love.

Sleep tight.

- Night Kev.

- Night.

- What is it?

Is it Kev?

I don't think he saw anything.

- No I'm, I'm thinking of retiring from the NHS.

- What?

- Just feels like it's time.

- But you love your job.

- I know, but this is gonna need all of my focus and energy now, what?

- You heard what Jack Straw said.

It could take years.

- I don't care how long it takes.

- What if it's five years?

10 years even?

And what if after all those years of fighting, you still don't get the result you want?

- We can't think like that.

Look, I know how you feel about all of this, and that's fine.

I don't need your help, but I do need your support.

(soft thoughtful music) (bells clanging) (soft thoughtful music continues) Oh hi love, how was your week?

(door clattering) (faint rock music) (knuckles knocking) - Come in.

- Mind if I sit?

Is everything okay, love?

You'd tell me if it wasn't, wouldn't you?

Kev, look whatever it is, you can be honest with me.

(papers rustling) (Ann gasping) Oh my God, oh, where did you find these?

- The library, some kids at school were saying things.

- Oh, oh Kev.

- I didn't read any more after that one.

- No, of course you couldn't.

Look please, please let me explain.

- Why would you lie to me?

- I don't know.

- Why?

- I don't know love, I, I didn't mean to hurt you.

We wanted to protect you, that's all.

Not just your granddad and me, but your dad as well.

You were so young.

But I am sorry, I'm sorry.

It's not fair.

Look, you can ask me anything you like about her, anything at all, okay?

And I will, I'll tell you the truth now, I promise.

Promise.

- She was murdered, wasn't she?

- Yes.

- By who?

- A man she knew.

- Is he in prison?

- Yeah.

- For killing my mom?

- No, but I'm fighting to put that right.

- What do you mean?

- Well, I'm trying to change the law, so your mom gets the justice she deserves, and so I can help other people in the same situation as us.

- Why did he kill her?

- I don't know love, I don't think I'll ever know.

But I'm gonna make sure it wasn't for nothing.

(crying) Come here, I'm sorry for lying.

(soft thoughtful music) Oh God, why haven't they replied yet?

- The Law Commission?

- Yes, of course the Law Commission.

Sorry.

It's been weeks, Charlie.

- Maybe they're just very busy.

- No, we've been fobbed off yet again.

- You don't know that.

- Maybe we should go to London, get a meeting in person.

- That might be easier said than done, love.

- Well, what do you suggest?

You know I can't just give up.

- (sighing) I haven't the energy any more, love.

Sorry.

I told you, you should've married someone younger.

- Charlie- - What?

- Give me your hand.

- No, it's fine.

- [Ann] Give me it.

Oh darling, it's getting worse.

- [Doctor] There's no definitive test for it, but based on the physical examination and your symptoms, so the chronic fatigue and tremors, then I'm afraid it is highly likely.

- Thank you, Doctor.

- If you have any questions- - No, thank you.

You've been very helpful, come on.

- [Doctor] Mrs.

Ming.

- (sighing) Thank you.

Charlie, wait.

We will get through this, Charlie.

- [Charlie] What about the Law Commission?

- What are you talking about?

Everything's changed, love.

- No it hasn't.

- Yes, it has.

This is about you now.

- It's not, and nor should it be.

Not for a good while, anyway.

(water sloshing) (dog barking) I don't want you fussing over me.

What I want is for you to keep fighting.

- I don't think that's true, Charlie.

- But it is, you have to Ann, because otherwise, I don't think you'll ever find peace.

If the Law Commission have decided double jeopardy's not a priority, then you need to do whatever it takes to make them sit up and take notice, okay?

- Okay.

- And don't stop till the fight is done.

- With me on the show today is the mother of Julie Hogg, a young woman murdered in 1989 by a man who has escaped justice, because of a centuries-old law known as double jeopardy.

Ann Ming, welcome to "News Hour."

- Thanks Penny, it's good to be here.

I should start by talking about double jeopardy, which some people claim is there to prevent endless trials of the same person.

Now, I can understand why it was created, more than 800 years go, but today it's not fit for purpose.

It shouldn't apply to someone who's openly boasted about committing a murder, and that's exactly what my daughter's killer did.

He bragged about pulling off the perfect crime.

Now, if that's not a reason to change the law, then I don't know what is.

- [Penny] You've embarked on quite a campaign, haven't you/ - [Ann] Yes, yes I have Penny.

I'm doing newspapers and radio, a TV documentary.

I'm talking to politicians, you name it.

- [Assistant] If you can follow me, Mrs.

Ming.

- [Penny] Must be painful, though.

- [Ann] It is, but my daughter has been denied justice, and I won't stop until it's been rectified.

- [Penny] I hear you're also going to be on national television, to debate Imran Khan, the lawyer for Stephen Lawrence's family.

(crew chattering) - Yes, that's right.

For some reason, he believes the law should stay as it is, so I'll have to change his mind, won't I?

- [Crew] 18 seconds, stand by please.

- With all its power and resources, the state shouldn't be permitted to make repeated, theoretically unlimited attempts to convict a man, when he doesn't have the analogous resources to find the evidence that clears him.

- [Moderator] Would you agree, Mrs.

Ming?

- Look, while I don't know all these fancy words, I just know that the law isn't fair, and it needs to be changed.

- Look, the real problem here is ineffectual police investigations.

Now without double jeopardy, you just get sloppy police work, because they know they can just try again if things didn't go their way.

- Well, surely there'll be safeguards to prevent that.

- And where would that leave us?

With an individual living in a state of constant anxiety and insecurity, subjected to embarrassing expense and ordeal, and the police disincentivized to be rigorous or proficient.

- [Moderator] Mrs.

Ming?

- You have a daughter, I believe, Mr.

Khan.

- Yes, I do.

- Well if your daughter had been murdered, and a man had confessed to killing her in a court of law, would you be happy with a perjury sentence?

- Well, legally speaking- - Not, I'm not talking as a lawyer, I'm talking as a father.

- Well, I wouldn't say- - Would you be happy with a perjury sentence?

- Of course I wouldn't.

- You wouldn't, well that says it all.

You can stop the cameras now, because that says it all.

He wouldn't be happy with a perjury sentence, and we're not, and we're going to the European Court of Human Rights if we have to, for justice for our daughter.

(sighing) - [Moderator] Mr.

Khan, Mrs.

Ming, thank you very much for your time.

- Yes, that's correct.

How can I help you?

- Is Mrs.

Ming there?

- No I'm sorry, she's not here right now, can I give her a message?

- [Assistant] I'm calling from the Law Commission.

- Oh.

- Mr.

Wilkie would like to meet her.

- I see.

Right, I'll be sure to pass that on to her.

- Thank you very much.

- Ta ra.

That was them.

- Who?

- The Law Commission.

Alan Wilkie saw the debate on the telly.

Says he wants to meet you.

(soft thoughtful music) (Ann and Charlie chuckling) - [Alan] I'm sorry for the delay in responding to your thorough and very moving letter.

- So you did read it then?

- Yes.

Let's just say, you've made yourself hard to ignore.

- We know there are several other families around the country in your situation, and we were hoping- - 35.

- I beg your pardon?

- Other cases, that is.

I've met most of them, they are just as desperate for the law to be changed as us.

- I'll get to the point, Ann.

We agree wholeheartedly that a review should be a priority.

- Good, but it needs to be retrospective, otherwise it's of no bloody use to us.

- We'll do what we can.

- He's out in a few years, you see, the man who murdered our Julie, so I hope you mean that.

- It's understandable that you're keen to get things moving, especially in the light of his appeal.

- He's appealing?

- Yes.

- Against his perjury sentence?

- I'm sorry, I'd assumed you'd have heard.

- Well then, then that's even more reason to get your skates on, isn't it?

No time for messing around.

- About this appeal Ann, you might consider writing to the Justices.

We're seeing some compelling evidence that something called a victim impact statement can influence the court.

- I wrote one of those for his perjury case, didn't make a blind bit of difference.

- You wrote an impact statement for the perjury sentencing?

- Took years off me life it did, why?

- No, I've read that file from cover to cover.

I'm sorry to say that there was no such statement in there.

- What?

No, but I handed it in at the CPS personally.

- I can only imagine it's some sort of bureaucratic oversight.

- Well for God's sake, no wonder he only got six years.

I was told it would play a big role in the judge's sentencing.

- That's certainly how it's supposed to work.

- It's just like it don't bloody matter.

- You must have a very low opinion of the legal establishment.

- Honestly Alan, it's been like this from the start.

Police not listening to me, Julie's reputation dragged through the mud, and now no one's bothered to even ready my statement.

- I realise you probably won't want to write another impact statement, but if you do, I will make sure that the Justices read it.

You have my word on that.

- You're writing another one?

- Yeah.

He's appealing his perjury sentence.

- Ah (sighing), yeah.

You haven't forgotten we're out for Gary's birthday tonight?

- No, of course not.

The CPS courier's picking it up from the house at 4:30, I'll have plenty of time.

- All right, I'll do you a coffee.

- [Ann] Yeah, thanks love.

- [Sportscaster] Down the signal and one properly, up by a lick.

- What time's the taxi coming?

- 15 minutes.

You look very nice.

- Thank you.

- Did you two have a drink?

- They said they'd call to confirm they received it.

- Hmm?

- I'm gonna have to call them, Charlie.

(phone beeping) - Royal Court of Justice.

- Hello.

Yeah, it's Ann Ming, case number 201208.

I'm calling to check that you received my impact statement.

- [Clerk] No, we haven't received anything for that case, I'm afraid.

- What no, are you sure?

It should've been faxed over in the last hour or so.

- [Clerk] No, I can't see anything here.

- Unbelievable, all right.

- [Clerk] I'd get them to send it again.

- Yeah, well thanks.

- Thank you.

- They haven't bloody sent it.

- Who?

- The CPS.

- Well- - [Ann] How hard it is to send a fax?

- Where are you going?

- You go ahead, I'll just get there when I can.

- Surely you don't have to drive round there.

Can't you just- - Yes, I do.

Look, I don't trust them to do anything, what happened the last time.

- Um, Ann- - Just tell Gary not to open his presents without me.

(door clattering) (bystanders chattering) Is it finished?

- Sorry?

- The meeting.

- Excuse me miss, you can't go in there.

- Can't I?

- He's in the middle of a, (door clattering) I'm sorry, Sir.

- We've met before.

- Excuse me- - Do you remember?

A year or so ago.

- Mrs.

Ming- - I was promised that the judge at the perjury sentencing would get my victim statement, only he never received it.

- As you can see, we're in a meeting- - And now the man who killed my daughter is appealing against his poxy six-year sentence, so do you know what I did?

I wrote another one, and went through the torture of reliving our Julie's murder, and I wrote another very detailed statement, a statement I was promised would be in London before 6:00 today, and guess what?

You lot bloody well let me down again.

- Mrs.

Ming- - No.

I will call Frank Cooke, Alan Wilkie, Jack bleeding Straw if I have to, I am not leaving this room until you call the Clerk of Court in London, and fax him my document.

- Think I'd listen to Mrs.

Ming, if I were you.

(soft thoughtful music) (phone beeping) - Thank you.

(door clattering) Where is everyone?

They left already.

- [Charlie] They waited as long as they could.

They've got their own lives, Ann.

- [Ann] I thought I'd make it.

(sighing) - I didn't know what to order, so.

- Well, this is fine, thanks.

(faint gentle music) - [Charlie] If it's cold, I can ask them to- - It's fine, thanks.

(faint gentle music continues) I wish I could be in two places at once.

- But you can't, Ann.

- It's not for nothing, Charlie.

- I hope you're right.

(soft expectant music) - Now remember, it really isn't the end of the world if this appeal is successful, and his sentence is reduced.

- Anything that puts that man back on the streets is catastrophic in my book.

- Well, let's keep everything crossed.

- Having considered the evidence, and especially in light of the thorough and affecting victim impact statement supplied by Mrs.

Ming, we are unanimous in our judgement that a sentence of six years is not manifestly excessive, and we do not seek to interfere with the judge's ruling, and consequently we dismiss the appeal against the sentence.

- (exhaling) Thank goodness for that.

So what happens next, about double jeopardy?

- Well, that's a small matter of un-picking 800 years of legal history, but it's in the hands of the Home Secretary and the Lord Chancellor now.

They have our report, and they'll give it their consideration.

- How long will that take?

- Shouldn't be too long.

- Right.

Thanks for coming with me.

- I wouldn't miss it for anything.

- [Ann] I know it's not easy for you.

- You know, it will be quite something, if they overturn the law.

- Well, unless it's retrospective, it's all been for nothing.

- No, whatever happens, you've done her proud.

Government white paper, and all because of you.

- We'd best get going.

- Aye.

- Right, you look after Angela for us, won't you?

(kiss smacking) That's it, then.

- I wanna come too.

- Oh no darling, I don't think that's a good idea.

- Why not?

Why shouldn't I be there?

I wanna be there to support you, and, and my mom.

(soft expectant music) - [Ann] I'm just a bit nervous now.

- Oh, don't be nervous.

- Does my hair look all right in this wind?

- Your hair looks perfect.

Very nice.

- It's blowing everywhere.

- You look very nice.

(reporters chattering) - Thank you.

- Mrs.

Ming, if I could get a word, anything, how you are, are you certain of the outcome today?

- Thank you.

(soft expectant music) - Hello, hello, my name's Ann Ming, I'm here- - This is for you, Mrs.

Ming.

- Oh, thank you.

(soft sombre music) Oh, oh God, it's retrospective.

The double jeopardy law's been overturned, and it's gonna be retrospective.

Oh God, oh.

- It's a monumental moment for you, Ann.

- It is.

Yeah, I'm shaking.

God, I just can't believe it.

(reporters chattering) Well I suppose the lesson is, being a bloody-minded pain in the ass can pay off sometimes, right?

- (laughing) Yes.

- Frank, how are you?

Oh.

- Sorry I couldn't be there, but you probably heard me cheering from the other end of the Air One.

(chuckling) Do you know Mark Braithwaite?

He's another one of the good guys.

- Nice to meet you, Mark.

- Likewise.

Here, take a seat.

- Honestly, without fellas like you, we'd have never achieved what we have.

- Well, we're not quite there yet.

Which is not to say we shouldn't celebrate.

You've gotta recognise your victories along the way, haven't you?

- Well I, I mean, I know it needs to be debated, but from what I understand, after a bit of back and forth, it is likely to get the votes, isn't it?

- In the Commons, yes.

But remember, the Lords is a different matter.

- There you go.

- Thanks.

They're a bunch of old conservative white men, in the main.

They're not generally keen on dismantling ancient English laws.

- But do you think they'll block us?

- I won't lie, I think it'll be tough to get through.

- Well, who do I talk to?

- About what?

- Speaking to the Lords, would they allow it?

- It's very unconventional.

- But it is allowed?

- You'd really do that, make a speech to the Lords?

- Can you help me or not?

- (chuckling) I know Lord Faulkner a little.

Let me speak to him.

- Thanks, don't screw it up.

- I'll try not to.

- Good luck with that.

- Right, safe and sober or bold and red?

- Hm, I'd play it safe if I were you.

- Are you sure you don't wanna come with me?

- I'd love to, I just.

- Right, now some shoes.

- You'll look great, whatever you wear.

(Ann chuckling) (bystanders chattering) (bell clanging) - Good morning.

(soft expectant music) - This must all seem rather grand to you, but don't worry.

The committee room isn't quite as mediaeval.

- Morning.

- Morning.

- Good morning.

- Morning?

It's 2:30 in the afternoon.

- Well, it's always morning here until the House sits.

One of our little conventions.

Now when we vote, we queue in two lines, either the content or the not content corridor, and we are counted off by a Peer holding a drumstick.

- Musical or chicken?

- (chuckling) Right, here we are.

You ready?

- Ah, yeah.

- You do have a speech, don't you?

- I've made some notes, but I don't think I'll need them.

- Mrs.

Ming, these are some of the most powerful and respected people in the country.

I have seen seasoned speakers go completely dry.

- Look, I may not be hoity-toity like you lot, but I know what I wanna say.

I've had 13 years to think about it.

- All right, well.

My most noble and learned Lords, may I introduce my guest today, Mrs.

Ann Ming, who've been talking to us with regards to the criminal justice bill, specifically part 10, which concerns the so-called double jeopardy rule.

(members chattering) - Thank you.

(clearing throat) My Lords and Ladies, um, thank you most humbly for um, letting me speak today.

I'll try not to take up too much of your time.

On November 16th, 1989, our eldest daughter Julie went missing.

Police, when I spoke to them, we hadn't seen her, you see, since the previous day, and she was due in court in Stockton the next morning.

- Speak up.

- (clearing throat) Anyway, I had a good, a good feeling that something dreadful had happened to her.

The police spent a week searching her home and they found nothing.

(members chattering) Look, I'm gonna tell you how it feels to lose a child, and how it feels to be shafted by the law.

There have been two moments of deep trauma in my life.

One was the moment I found my daughter's body under the bath.

13 years later, I still have nightmares.

The second was the moment I had to watch my daughter's murderer walk free.

Nobody here will ever, ever know how that feels.

Trusting the state to bring you justice and peace, only to find yourself marginalised and betrayed.

For you, the law is just something you make for others, in this ivory tower with your inherited privileges.

But for me, it's a cancer.

For the last 13 years, I have fought to get justice for Julie.

I've had to deal with rank police incompetence, two mistrials, two Home Secretaries, and a CPS who didn't even seem to care about its victims.

On top of all that, I had to figure out a way of telling my grandson what happened to his mommy, and how to keep me marriage together, when me and my husband Charlie were drowning in grief.

You know, look, I don't want your sympathy.

I just, I just need you to listen.

If someone is sent to prison for a crime, and new evidence proves that they were innocent all along, well it's only right that they should walk free.

Well, surely it should work the other way round too.

If someone is acquitted and new evidence proves that they were guilty all along, well then they should take the rap for it.

Look, I'm not, I'm not interested in revenge, or even compensation.

I just want the man who took our little girl from us to pay for his crime.

Our daughter's right to life was stolen from her.

The only way we can get justice is by changing the double jeopardy law retrospectively.

- Hear, hear.

- Hear, hear.

- Hear, hear.

(bright poignant music) - Thank you.

(bell clanging) Fancy seeing you here.

- I'm here all the time.

- You are?

I didn't know that.

- There's a lot you don't know, Mom.

- I don't think I've got the energy to keep on fighting, you know, if the Lords block it.

(sighing) Do you ever see her?

- Who?

- Our Julie.

God, I miss her so much.

(sighing) I don't care who she was with, what she went through in her private life, I just, I just wish I could tell her that I love her.

(sighing) - Mom.

- What?

- I, I miss her too.

But I think you need to move on, Mom.

I think you need to let her go.

- What do you mean?

- I'm saying Mom, that you've got two living children.

- Gary, love- - Bye, Mom.

(birds chattering) (door clattering) - Where have you been?

- Huh?

- [Charlie] We've been waiting for hours.

- Who's been waiting?

- Well, come and see.

- What?

- Through here, love.

- [Ann] (chuckling) Frank.

- It's my birthday today, and it's the best one I ever had.

(cork popping) - Congratulations.

- The bill's gone through, love.

It's gone through the Lords, and it's retrospective.

- What?

- It is true, Ann.

- No, but really?

- We've done it.

(Ann crying) You've done it.

- (sobbing) Really, really it's happened?

Oh God.

Oh, I can't believe it.

- It's over.

- Oh no, really?

- Yeah.

(Ann sobbing) - Charlie, we did it.

- Yeah we did, we did.

- We did it, oh God, it's over.

- We've won.

- We did it.

- We did it, it's over.

(cameras clicking) - My government will continue to make the reduction of crime and the fear of crime a priority.

The government will be implementing the Criminal Justice Act, to ensure the effective punishment of dangerous and persistent offenders.

- [Reporter] It took the High Court only a matter of minutes to quash the original acquittal of October, 1991, opening the door to today's historic retrial in the case of Julie Hogg's murder.

(reporters chattering) - Mrs.

Ming, do you, do you think they'll let him off the hook?

- What do you mean, let him off the hook?

- Well, the judge might decide he's spent long enough in prison.

He's done nearly 10 years.

- What did she mean by that?

- Let's get you inside.

- In deciding your sentence, I have borne in mind your guilty plea, which has saved Julie Hogg's family and friends from enduring a further trial.

Before I counter sentence you, I should like to read an extract from Mrs.

Ming's impact statement, a harrowing and moving account of the harm you have done to the family.

"As a family, we are damaged beyond repair, and will never be the same again, as Julie will never return home.

The love we feel for Julie means it is we who are serving the life sentence.

Julie's son Kevin has missed out on a mother's love.

He has missed out on a childhood.

All he has left of her are a few photographs."

(soft expectant music) Notwithstanding your guilty plea, I have seen no evidence of genuine contrition on your part, as opposed to evident self-pity, and attempts by you to avoid or minimise the proper consequences of what you have done.

Those consequences are, that on the count of murder, you will be imprisoned for life, with a minimum tariff of 17 years.

(Ann moaning) Take him down.

(soft poignant music) (Ann exhaling) - [Reporter] Ann, Ann.

- I just, I just can't believe what's happened today.

I can't believe that we finally got justice for our daughter, ah- - Mrs.

Ming, this is the first person in Britain to be convicted of a crime for which they'd previously been acquitted.

It's historic, isn't it?

- Yes, I suppose it is really, yeah.

Sorry, it's not often that I'm speechless.

- Your campaign, it has taken up so much of your life.

What will you do now?

- Um, more line dancing, probably.

- Ann, I don't think you realise quite what you've achieved.

- Don't be daft.

- To overturn one of the most established legal principles in Western democracy, people talk about speaking truth to power, well you've made history today.

- I just hope he never gets out.

- You've ignited a debate around the world.

Every country with double jeopardy laws has been watching us very closely, indeed.

- Here, Mark's got us another round to celebrate.

- [Mark] It's the least we could do.

- To Ann.

- To Ann.

- To Ann.

- To Ann.

- Cheers.

- To Ann.

♪ Used to be, we'd walk alone a while ♪ ♪ Listen to the breeze, and watch you smile ♪ ♪ As gentle as the warmth of your embrace ♪ - So people do this sober?

♪ Listen to my dream, tell me ♪ - Nothing to be worried about.

- I'm getting a drink, a large one.

What do you want?

- Whatever they've got.

♪ When it took the world to lead ♪ ♪ The most of you away ♪ ♪ This used to be my heart, now it's torn apart ♪ ♪ And I'm fading ♪ ♪ Deeper in my soul, backing in so cold ♪ ♪ I'm fading away ♪ (soft poignant music) (Ann gasping) (Ann crying) (bystanders chattering) - Queue was too long, I'll go back in a few minutes.

What's wrong?

Is everything okay?

- Yes.

- All right everyone, are we all ready?

Grab your favourite cowboy- - Are you all right?

- I'm okay.

- A five, six- - You sure?

- Five, six, seven, eight.

- I love you.

- That's nice.

- Oh, it's starting.

- Bloody hell, is that it?

- That's our go.

(Charlie speaking inaudibly) ♪ Another town left behind ♪ ♪ Hoping just to ride on this old big rig ♪ ♪ And try to make up a little time ♪ ♪ If I could drop this load off early ♪ ♪ I'll pick another one up tonight ♪ ♪ Waiting for the book to keep the end of the road ♪ ♪ Just out of sight ♪ ♪ And I'll go miles, and ain't no reason to count ♪ (family chattering) ♪ I like it on the highway ♪ - I'm thinking you're mad.

- Come on, it'll be fun.

♪ When I'm moving, everything's all right ♪ ♪ And I always keep the end of the road ♪ ♪ Just out of sight ♪ ♪ I'm clicking off miles, there ain't no reason to count ♪ ♪ As long as I can find a highway, I know ♪ (soft poignant music) (crowd applauding) (gentle poignant music) (bright flourish music)