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00:00Julie, whose maiden name is Ming, was driven home in the early hours but had vanished when
00:24her family called in the morning. I drove down to the house and I got feeling straight away said
00:33there was something wrong. She's knocking on the door, the window, no answer. I'm going up the stairs
00:42to the bathroom. I'm screaming, she's under the bath. She's under the bath. Today detectives launched
00:52a full-scale murder hunt involving 40 officers. The opening of the murder trial today follows a
01:04high-profile police investigation. Dunlop walked out of court a free man. You've got no justice for
01:13your daughter and you've got a man out in local pubs bragging he killed her. All I wanted was justice for Julie.
01:23Alex.
01:39I admire Anne so much.
01:53Everything that she's gone through, that we're having to reenact and relive every day, I mean, I can only imagine, you know,
02:03I'm only scratching the surface and it's very emotional for me. She's just an incredible woman.
02:11Thank you so much for today, Anne. If you need a break at any point, just say.
02:16OK.
02:18It's hard to believe that nearly 17,000 people work here, but they do. Many of them are on shifts, of course,
02:27because Billingham never stops. Billingham was quite a close-knit community and still is the kind of place
02:35where you know your neighbours. Most people would be employed in a big chemical plant, ICI Billingham,
02:42or they might commute into Middlesbrough, but it was very much your traditional working-class population.
02:48This is where Anne Ming grew up in the 1950s. At 16, she fell in love.
02:58It's my friends both and I said, it was that. He's like, it's Charlie. He said his mother's English style is Chinese.
03:05I thought, oh, he looks full of East and Primus, I love him. That was the start of Charlie.
03:13Anne and Charlie married, and they soon started a family.
03:18We bought a new house, and the neighbour came to the door with a letter.
03:24She said, we don't mind you being here, cos we see how clean you are.
03:29But when your husband's friends come to visit him, it lowers the tone of the area.
03:34They had to put up with slurs and questioning about, you know, mixed-race children.
03:41And Anne just stuck it out.
03:48The couple had three children. Julie was the middle child.
03:57She was fairly quiet. She did gymnastics. She'd win the brownies and the guides.
04:04She'd stand up for herself if she thought she was in the right.
04:07At 18, Julie met and married a local painter and decorator.
04:23I mean, she was a young girly. She was happy she wanted to get married.
04:30Julie and her new husband found a house just five minutes from her mum and dad.
04:44Not long after, they had a son, Kevin.
04:48My mum was a family-orientated person, quite a happy person.
04:55Loved music. Loved to dance.
04:58If I didn't see her every day, she was on the phone every day, but most days I saw her.
05:03By 1989, the couple had split up. Julie's husband moved to London, while she stayed in the Billingham house with Kevin.
05:14She worked in a local pizza shop, because they worked late. She and Kevin used to come and stay with me and his grandad's day overnight.
05:24Get you ready. Mum will be late for work.
05:30Well, you ring us in the morning. We need to leave around nine, so can you call me at 7.30?
05:36You'd be a good boy for Nana, OK?
05:39The last contact I had with my mum was November 15th, 1989.
05:43I was going to stay at my grandma's for the evening, because my mum was working.
05:49And the following day, she was going to court for her separation.
06:01Not picking up?
06:03You know our Julie, she's seen through a bombing raid.
06:07When Julie didn't pick up, Anne and Kevin went round to check.
06:14I have very little memory of from when we went down to the house, apart from being in the car.
06:22When I got there, all the curtains were closed, doors were locked, I didn't have a key.
06:27I showed her through the letterbox. Nothing at all.
06:31My gut feeling straight away said there was something wrong.
06:35She's knocking on the door, the window, and again, no answer.
06:43Anne went to find her son, who was working nearby.
06:49He came out of the house.
06:52And the back door had, like, a narrow glass panel.
06:56We broke in that.
07:00I was stood there with Kevin, who was obviously crying for his mummy.
07:03Mustn't open the curtains, opened the front window.
07:08He said, there's something wrong in here, ma'am.
07:10Everywhere's really tidy.
07:12She was quite untidy, Julie.
07:14There was nothing.
07:16No sign for us on, no keys anywhere.
07:17She probably got home from work, decided to go to a nightclub.
07:28Maybe she got drunk, sleeping it off somewhere.
07:30I think the police didn't take it so seriously at the time, because initially, it was within a 24-hour window in today's terms.
07:41A mispare is not really a priority until, I think it's 48 hours.
07:47It was very frustrating because, I mean, it was totally out of character for her not to be there, especially the fact that I had the young little boy with me.
07:57There'd been no arguments. There'd been nothing, you know.
08:00Julie was officially listed as missing, two days after she disappeared.
08:06Julie, whose maiden name is Ming, is five feet, three inches tall and slim, with hazel eyes.
08:12She was driven home in the early hours of November the 16th, but had vanished when her family called in the morning.
08:21When Julie disappeared, it was a front page story in the local press.
08:27Everybody around here would have known about it, but maybe not further afield.
08:31Four days later, following pressure from Anne, police sent in a forensics team.
08:50There was fingerprint just all over the place.
08:52When we went in, at one point we were in the bathroom, there was me, my daughter, the head of the forensics and the police lady.
09:04And on the window there was Julie's make-up bag.
09:07I said, you said yes, and she took off to London. I said she wouldn't go at the end of the road without her make-up on.
09:12The police searched for five days, but found nothing suspicious.
09:17The inspector came to see us and he said, he couldn't guarantee us that, you know, our daughter hasn't come to grief somewhere in the country,
09:28but could guarantee us that nothing untoward has happened to her in the house.
09:33So I said, well, if that's what you're telling me, me as a mother are telling you, I know something's happened to her.
09:41Weeks had passed with no news of Julie's whereabouts.
09:44Anne turned to the media.
09:49She sat in front of the cameras, in front of the press, giving this appeal from, definitely from the heart.
09:56Very emotive.
09:58And beside her, the most poignant thing was, there was Julie's little three-year-old boy.
10:03She would never just go off and leave Kevin. Never. At all. Never.
10:09And were you and the rest of her family close?
10:10Very close. Like I say, she saw us every day. The last thing she said to me was,
10:16don't forget to phone me at 7.30 and the man to wake me up.
10:19Just please phone anybody. Please, friends, anybody. Just let us know you're alive, Julie. That's all.
10:25We got, as a family, got the keys back. Myself and my dad were to move back into the property.
10:43I went down to the house with my son-in-law to go and bring all Julie's things out.
10:50And then my son-in-law was going to go down the next day and start to clean the fingerprint dust,
10:53which was all over the place. And they switched the central heating on.
10:57There was a strange smell from the bathroom. My dad rang my gran.
11:07I said to him, it might be the toilet. Put some bleach down the toilet and don't use the toilet.
11:12So, the next day, I drove down to the house.
11:16When I got to the house, he opened the door and I said, have you got rid of the smell?
11:22I'm going up the stairs to the bathroom.
11:26Inside, I'm screaming to myself, please, God, don't let it be Julie.
11:31I leaned over the bath to smell the wall, hoping the smell would be from the tiles being taken off.
11:44The bath panel was loose. It was loose at one end.
11:49The smell come up. So, I just bent down and pulled it up.
11:53I'm screaming. She's under the bath. She's under the bath.
12:07I was at the bottom of the stairs when she had discovered my mum's body.
12:14What?
12:15She's under the bath.
12:24It really was horrible. I just wanted to get out the house and not to be true.
12:34That was the start of a living nightmare.
12:36Around a living nightmare.
12:42The 22-year-old Julie was last seen alive in the early hours of November the 16th last year.
12:53But three months later, Julie's mother found her body under the bath.
13:00Julie's mother found her body under the bath.
13:07Horrendous.
13:09I sort of realised then I was never coming back,
13:11but I'd been proved right.
13:13I'd said all along something had happened to her,
13:16but the police had said, you know, no news is good news.
13:20Cleveland police had searched the house for five days
13:23and found nothing suspicious.
13:26Julie had been there all along.
13:27I honestly and truly were in that house all day for five days.
13:33Even to this day, I still do not know what they were doing in that house.
13:41And in that moment I found her,
13:45any hope of anything had all gone.
13:48And I just wanted to know what had happened to her
13:51and who was responsible.
13:54You doing OK, Anne?
13:55Yeah. Yeah, I'm all right.
13:57When the police were in the house,
14:01after the body was discovered,
14:03they found articles, my mum's diary,
14:07bank cards in the loft,
14:09which were missed on the first search,
14:11human error.
14:13That's the only reason why I can think that's something,
14:16you know, the body wasn't found sooner.
14:17The way the search was handled was catastrophically bad,
14:24not just in terms of the way that Anne was left
14:27and found her own daughter's body behind a bath,
14:31but not least because they lost three months of forensic evidence
14:34with a body that unfortunately had decomposed.
14:37Today, detectives launched a full-scale murder hunt involving 40 officers.
14:50Going back to 1989, I was a young detective sergeant.
14:53I was 30 years of age.
14:55When the missing person investigation became a murder case,
14:59Mark Braithwaite joined as case officer.
15:01Well, it was clear that she'd been killed,
15:06it was clear that her body had been badly mutilated,
15:10and it was clear that her body had been concealed
15:13behind the bath panel by whoever was responsible.
15:15Our job was to identify who that person was.
15:22Mark here will be your family liaison officer.
15:26This must be a very difficult and frightening time for you both.
15:29Difficult?
15:31Our job has been murderous, this is hell.
15:34Anne was understandably still traumatised and upset,
15:40completely untrusting of Cleveland police.
15:42Detectives began with the most recent men in Julie's life.
15:50As the investigation moved forward,
15:53there were several people of potential interest to us.
15:57Some of the men had links to a local rugby club,
16:01but DNA from the blanket Julie was wrapped in ruled out all but one.
16:06One of these individuals came out as the prime suspect.
16:15Local man, Billy Dunlop.
16:22Well known in the area.
16:25Played rugby, but with a fearsome reputation
16:28as a violent so-called hard man.
16:31Dunlop lived two streets away from Julie,
16:38and her keys were found hidden
16:39under the floorboards of the house where he was staying.
16:48Yeah.
16:50Bad heat at the beach.
16:52Woo!
16:52Woo!
16:56How are we, Billy?
16:58I'm ready.
16:58On the night that Julie met her death,
17:07Dunlop had been at the rugby club at Billingham with his pals.
17:11They'd been drinking to excess.
17:13There'd been strippers there,
17:15so they were sexually aroused.
17:17He'd been involved in a nasty altercation with another man.
17:22He had to be pulled off him to prevent him hurting him further.
17:25He'd received an injury to his eye,
17:28for which he required some hospital treatment.
17:35After leaving hospital,
17:36Dunlop went to his friend's house,
17:38next door to Julie's.
17:41He'd indicated to his pal that he might pop round Julie's.
17:45The witness evidence of his friend
17:47was that he left the house,
17:50but he didn't see him go next door.
17:52But he clearly did.
17:56We were told by the police
17:57from me being arrested and charged
17:59with Julie's murder.
18:03We didn't know anything about him, really.
18:05I mean,
18:06just that he'd been involved in a fight
18:09the night of the night Julie had been murdered.
18:12More than a year later,
18:23Billy Dunlop went on trial for murder.
18:26The opening of the murder trial today
18:28follows a high-profile police investigation.
18:31The accused, William Dunlop,
18:33is said to have gone round to Julie's house expecting sex.
18:39I can picture him just sat down there.
18:41And when it went to the court
18:45at Newcastle,
18:47you couldn't believe, you know,
18:49the evidence they had against him.
18:51There was the fingerprints on the key fob
18:53and the blanket,
18:55there was sperm that matched his.
18:57There was Ferris from his jumper
18:59through while the night at the rugby club.
19:03As a prosecution team,
19:05we felt the evidence in the case
19:07was, although not conclusive,
19:10was sufficiently strong
19:11to satisfy a jury as to his guilt.
19:16In court,
19:17Anne had to relive finding Julie's body.
19:19Even though she was wrapped in a blanket,
19:23I knew that it was her by Julie.
19:27The smell was unspeakable.
19:31It was in my lungs.
19:33It was everywhere.
19:37It was terrible, that,
19:39because the Bloomin' Defence barrister,
19:41he said to me,
19:42you know,
19:43which hand did you put behind the bath panel
19:44and you're right under your left hand.
19:47All the time,
19:48I'm in the bathroom getting flushbacks.
19:55Julie Hogg is described
19:57as having been a promiscuous woman
19:58who had previously had sex
20:00with the man now accused of her murder.
20:03The way that the defence team
20:06ran Dunlop's defence
20:09was to effectively slurry Julie's character,
20:12drag her reputation through the mud.
20:16Dunlop didn't need to prove
20:17that he hadn't murdered Julie.
20:19All he needed to do
20:20was get enough doubt
20:21into the minds of the jury.
20:25While the defence attacked Julie's character,
20:28they also had another strategy.
20:33The defence case was effectively
20:35that he'd possibly been framed by the police,
20:38but it was not him.
20:39He demonstrated in the witness box
20:42the same careful, thoughtful,
20:46manipulative approach
20:48that I'd taken from the interviewers.
20:57Dunlop had sown enough doubt
20:59in the jury's mind.
21:00They were unable to reach a verdict.
21:03The judge had no option
21:04but to order a retrial.
21:06The second trial,
21:13the defence team
21:14was seeking to convince the jury
21:16effectively that Julie may have died
21:18a natural death
21:19through engaging in a consensual act.
21:22She'd met her death in that way.
21:25Absurd, though that
21:26seemed to us at the time.
21:28It worked.
21:32After 13 days,
21:34the second jury
21:35were also unable
21:36to reach a verdict.
21:38The judge ordered
21:39that Dunlop
21:39be acquitted.
21:43Yes!
21:44Order!
21:45He's getting away with murder!
21:48Get away from me!
21:49But in another blow to the family,
21:58an 800-year-old law
21:59called double jeopardy
22:01meant he could never be tried again.
22:05Dunlop walked out of court
22:07a free man,
22:10effectively knowing
22:11that even if he admitted
22:11to Julie's killing,
22:13we couldn't charge him
22:13in murder again.
22:15Anne had to watch
22:16the man who she knew
22:17in her heart
22:18had murdered her daughter
22:19walk free.
22:21Not only that,
22:22he was living
22:22in the same community as her.
22:25To everyone else,
22:27Dunlop was now a victim,
22:29wrongly prosecuted.
22:31And now,
22:32he wanted to tell his story.
22:36I was so relieved,
22:39but I'm so confused,
22:42you know,
22:42with everything that's gone on
22:44in the last 20 months.
22:46And I just,
22:47it is just a relief
22:51that it's all over with now.
22:53What do you think
22:54of the murderer?
22:56Well,
22:56I haven't got words
22:57that could express
23:00that person.
23:03Off camera,
23:04Billy couldn't help bragging
23:06that he'd gotten away
23:07with murder.
23:09After his acquittal,
23:11his family held a party
23:12for him
23:13and within weeks
23:16he was bragging
23:17in pubs.
23:18People were telling
23:19my grandparents
23:20of what he was saying.
23:22Morning after the party
23:24and Edwin is recovering.
23:26You've got no justice
23:27for your daughter
23:28and you've got a man
23:30out in local pubs
23:31bragging he killed her.
23:33Billy's laid there
23:34feeling ill.
23:38It was just awful.
23:39I've got a man
24:00I've got a man
24:01I've got a man
24:02Yes, but when the trees are all...
24:22Yeah, the gardens are all nice and the flowers are all.
24:25Yeah.
24:32Kevin Hogg was just three when his mum was murdered.
24:44Growing up, I knew something was wrong.
24:48I was 13 and I'd heard rumours.
24:52A friend had told me that she'd slipped in the bath and I didn't know what to believe.
24:56Like, my natural instincts were to believe my parents and then I really didn't know what
25:00to do.
25:01It must have been really damaging for him.
25:09The family are presumably trying to put on a brave face and look after him and remember
25:14that they mustn't upset him too much.
25:21Ten years later, he came across the truth.
25:25By then, Dunlop was in prison for attacking another woman.
25:29But he couldn't be charged with Julie's murder again because of the double jeopardy law.
25:33Finding out the news that my mum had been murdered was absolutely horrific.
25:38Having to digest what had actually happened to my mum and being told that my...
25:45The person who had killed my mum was in prison but not for the offence was just phenomenal on
25:56my mental health level of understanding of how a person can kill someone and not be convicted
26:02of that crime.
26:05I wanted justice for all the family and I wanted justice for Kevin because it was difficult
26:12for him to comprehend.
26:13You know, they had evidence against him.
26:15And because of a jury feeling to reach a decision, he was walking, freeing, fragging, he killed
26:19his mum.
26:20It was awful really.
26:23Knowing that his mother hadn't received justice, left Kevin scarred.
26:33Between the ages of 18 and 20, I went completely off the rails with alcohol, drugs.
26:39It just really wasn't pleasant.
26:43I had no respect for or regard to my family and it was just going to end in a bad way.
26:53It's only in subsequent years, as time's gone on, I've learned to understand and become
27:01at peace with certain things.
27:10Dunlop thought he was untouchable and he still couldn't keep quiet about what he'd done.
27:21At some point, Dunlop decides for whatever reason that he's going to write a letter to
27:26an ex-girlfriend, then he wrote a letter to one of his friends and both these letters
27:33had the same thing in common, that he was admitting to the murder of Julie Hogg.
27:42By lying about Julie's murder in court, Dunlop had perjured himself.
27:49But detectives needed more evidence.
27:51Well, that was the problem.
27:54That's all he was basically saying, people know I've killed Julie, but I've actually
27:59killed her.
28:00So they weren't very sort of detailed, anything like that, it was just a simple admission.
28:08Dunlop was speaking with a prison officer who wore a wire.
28:12She recorded 90 hours of material with him.
28:15Over a three month period, he admitted to killing Julie again.
28:19A bit more about what had gone on, but nothing in any detail, but that was enough.
28:31Dunlop was arrested and taken to Stockton Police Station.
28:38He's very, very calm and collected, didn't rush anything.
28:56I suppose you'd say his normal demeanour.
29:08Did you take the oath, I swear by a mighty God, that the other side she'll give, she'll be
29:14the truth, all truth, nothing but the truth.
29:19I don't guess.
29:21Did you kill Julie Hall?
29:25Yes.
29:27Will you tell me what happened that night?
29:30I can reach for the killing of Julie Hall.
29:33Or if we can remember a bit.
29:35So I'll bring this back up.
29:38At some point, he states, Julie starts winding him up about his injuries.
29:49And I suppose you could say that's like a red rag to a bull.
29:53He just lost it.
29:54And then he strangled her and killed her.
29:57So I carried upstairs, I went downstairs, got a screw driver, and I looked at him down the
30:09back panel, and tried to push him up behind.
30:14We paid against him, back against this thing.
30:20The police came to see us and they said, we've got to tell you now we can charge him
30:24and we took on to perjury.
30:26So at that time, I mean, perjury was a substitute for murder, but it was better than no conviction
30:32at all.
30:41Today, he spoke only twice.
30:43That was to plead guilty to each charge of perjury.
30:47On the count of perjury, you will be imprisoned for six years.
30:53To be served consecutive to your current sentence.
30:57You murdering bastards!
31:00Six years for murdering my daughter!
31:03I'll see you when hell you're pregnant!
31:09Today, Mrs Ming had listened in tears to the harrowing details of her daughter's death
31:13and had made an angry outburst in court when the judge passed sentence.
31:17I came out that car that day and I said to him, I said, I am not going to sit back and
31:26let them do nothing about this double jeopardy.
31:29I think it was a pivotal moment for Anne.
31:31This nightmare was just going to continue.
31:37And so, suddenly, her campaign to get justice for Julie focused not on individual trials,
31:47but a really fundamental, important thing, which was changing the law.
31:57Anne went straight to the top, asking her MP to help her and Charlie meet the Home Secretary.
32:04Stockton MP Frank Cook is personally handing a letter from the family to Jack Straw.
32:09It worked.
32:13Within days, they were walking into the Home Office.
32:20I said, this man's making a mockery of the British justice system.
32:24I said, you can confess in a court of law in England that you're responsible for a murder.
32:30And you're going to be charged with a perjury because of an 800-year-old luster.
32:33That's not right.
32:36Okay, well, tell me this.
32:38What would you do if you were in our situation?
32:43If you're to have any chance of success, you'll have to get the Law Commission on your side.
32:50All right, well, give me the name of the person I need to speak to there then, please.
32:54You've got grit.
32:57I'll give you that.
32:59We've been wronged, Jack.
33:01How can I stay silent?
33:18Anne's daughter, Julie, was murdered in 1989.
33:24The prime suspect had walked free from court, officially innocent, but later boasting about his crime.
33:43It's the one where you made the request to meet the Law Commission in the written back.
33:47Oh, yeah.
33:49Alan Wilker, Judge Alan Wilker, yeah.
33:55Anne was now fighting to change the law so he could be tried again.
34:01Anne's approach to this was to be utterly committed and utterly selfless.
34:05If someone showed interest in Anne's case, she was happy to talk to them and she made sure that this was never far from the headlines.
34:12Not everyone wanted double jeopardy scrapped. Critics worried that innocent people could be tried again and again.
34:29Stand by, please.
34:30Anne faced Imran Khan, who had exposed police failings in the Stephen Lawrence murder case.
34:36With all its power and resources, the state shouldn't be permitted to make repeated,
34:42theoretically unlimited attempts to convict a man when he doesn't have the analogous resources
34:47to find the evidence that clears him.
34:50Would you agree, Mrs Ming?
34:51Would you be happy with a perjury sentence because of an 800-year-old law?
34:55As a person, I don't mean as a lawyer.
34:57No, no, no.
34:58I agree with you.
34:59Would you be happy with a perjury sentence?
35:03Of course I wouldn't.
35:04Well, that answers it all.
35:05I think you should stop the cameras now because that answers it all.
35:16Anne was invited to meet the legal experts reviewing double jeopardy.
35:21The Law Commission.
35:23She knew this was her chance.
35:26When we got there, it was the full panel.
35:28We were absolutely lovely.
35:30They said, off the record, you know, we're all fathers.
35:34There wasn't a dry air in the panel.
35:35You know, because we're all fathers.
35:37How would we feel?
35:38Would we be happy with a perjury sentence?
35:39No, they wouldn't.
35:41We know there are several other families around the country in your situation
35:45and we were hoping...
35:4635.
35:48I beg your pardon?
35:49Other cases, please.
35:52I've met most of them.
35:54They are just as desperate for the law to be changed as us.
35:58He said, can I use your letter to go to government?
36:00I said, you can use me, never mind me letter.
36:02He said, it's the most compelling case in the country
36:05because you've got the confession in court.
36:11Dunlop had confessed to Julie's murder
36:13and laughed at the law that protected him.
36:17But after 13 years, Anne's campaign was finally breaking through.
36:21This white paper is designed to rebalance the criminal justice system in favour of the victim and the delivery of justice for all.
36:32On the morning that Anne was going to hear the decision, I was on a train with Anne, filming her.
36:47In the white paper, we are praying that the recommendations to the changes to the double jeopardy law will be made retrospective,
36:58which is what we desperately need to obtain justice for Julie.
37:01You can imagine we were all nervous and we had an inkling that the law was going to be changed,
37:12but we didn't know if it was going to be changed retrospectively.
37:14As David Blunkett stood up in the House of Commons.
37:20Hello.
37:22Hello, my name's Anne Ming, I'm here.
37:24This is for you, Mrs Ming.
37:25Anne collected a copy of the white paper,
37:27desperate to know if the changes would apply to older cases.
37:30It's retrospective, the double jeopardy law is going to be retrospective.
37:40God, I can't believe it.
37:4213 years of fighting and campaigning.
37:45Oh, God.
37:46I just can't believe it.
37:48Oh, God.
37:50For once in me life, I'm speechless.
37:52She was crying, Kevin was crying, Charlie was crying, I was crying, the cameraman was crying, everybody was crying.
38:05We were absolutely overwhelmed to think that all her battling and all her hard work had succeeded.
38:14The law had cleared its first hurdle, but the House of Lords could stop it all.
38:26There are a bunch of old, conservative white men in the main.
38:31They're not generally keen on dismantling ancient English laws.
38:35We got our appointment to go to the House of Lords.
38:40I wasn't nervous about addressing the House of Lords.
38:44It was the fact that I wanted to win them round.
38:46To see that the common sense approach with the double jeopardy reform was the way forward.
38:53Look, I'm going to tell you how it feels to lose a child.
38:59And how it feels to be shafted by the law.
39:03My daughter had a right to life, Dunlop took her life away.
39:07We have a right to justice, and for us and other families who have had acquittals,
39:12the only way forward and to make this happen is to change the double jeopardy law.
39:23They agreed.
39:24And in April 2005, an 800-year-old law was swept away.
39:32Billy Dunlop's protection evaporated.
39:36Ann Ming heading for London to see Billy Dunlop in the dock at the Old Bailey.
39:46The extraordinary thing was that Ann had got Billy Dunlop,
39:50the man who she believed had murdered her daughter,
39:52into the dock of the Old Bailey, number one court.
39:55She looked him straight in the eye, and he could not look at her.
40:04The judge, David Calvert-Smith,
40:06asked Dunlop was he guilty of killing Julie.
40:10I can't tell you what it felt like to hear him say guilty.
40:21It's taken nearly 17 years,
40:23but we finally heard Billy Dunlop confess in court
40:26where he's murdered our daughter.
40:28It was hugely emotionally charged.
40:40I suspect one of immense relief and satisfaction
40:45that she, Ann, fundamentally had championed this change
40:51and that she'd been able to secure justice for the murder of her daughter.
40:56In the end, the man who'd mocked the law for 17 years
41:02was sentenced to life behind bars.
41:17I've carried this case for 18 of my 32 years police service
41:21in some shape or form.
41:22It's been my privilege to support Ann and the family throughout.
41:28I think Ann's legacy is the fact that she had an 800-year-old law changed,
41:41but also she didn't stop.
41:44She's gone round to police conferences all over the country,
41:49trying to explain what it's like to be a victim
41:52and relatives of the victim.
41:54Obviously, this case has been a privilege to work on
41:59as far as I'm concerned.
42:00It's Ann's case.
42:02Ann deserves all the praise.
42:05She's highly, highly motivated and obviously an inspiration
42:09to everyone that meets her.
42:11She'll never, ever give up at all.
42:15I think she portrayed me really well.
42:38Absolutely, because it was like watching myself actually, watching it.
42:44I cried all the way through it because I was feeling all the emotions
42:47that I was feeling at the time when she was taking the part.
42:51She's so resilient now because she's been through so much.
42:55Even in your darkest moments, you get through them
42:58and she's just a prime example of that.
43:02She's amazing.
43:03A lot of people seem to think I had a team of lawyers
43:06backing me all the way, but I didn't.
43:09I was like family supporting Kevin,
43:12but I was like a one-man band.
43:14Then you get to the world.
43:17That's what I felt like at times.
43:20She kept on fighting for all those years
43:22and eventually she got the Double Jeopardy law changed.
43:27She's made such a big impact.
43:29She kept on fighting for all those years.
43:45She kept on fighting for all those years.
44:18I hope that my mum would be proud of what my nan has achieved, for something that's
44:36so natural as a parent to fight for your child.
44:42I've got lots of things that I remember about Julie.
44:45About a year before she was murdered, we'd gone into town.
44:52She had about five-inch orange high heels on.
44:55Sure, my mum's pop shoes, my feet are killing me.
44:57So I'm walking around the town with a pair of five-inch orange shoes on, you know.
45:02She was, no, she was one on her own, was Julie, you know.
45:06Anne refused to give up.
45:13She made history by rewriting British law and opened the door for justice for other families.
45:19All for the love of her Julie.
45:21She made history by her.
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