Accused

2010 • BBC One

4.0

12 reviews

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Season 2 episodes (4)

1 Tracie's Story

8/14/12

Simon Gaskell stands nervously in the dock as he awaits the jurys verdict. Will he walk free or go down?

2 Mo's Story

8/21/12

Mo Murray has taken a stand against drugs, gangs and gun crime in her community but now she stands alongside her mother Maureen and her 17-year-old son Jake in the dock. Why?

3 Stephen's Story

8/28/12

17-year-old teenager Stephen Cartwright stands charged with a serious offence as his anxious father Peter looks on.

4 Tina's Story

9/4/12

Tina Dakin stands silence and tense in the dock. She has told the truth and now all she can do is wait to hear the verdict.

About this show

Each hour long episode is a separate story about how one ordinary individual just like you or me ended up in the dock to face his or her fate.
But nothing is what it seems. And, as viewers learn more about each of the six people charged the question is should they be the accused? Are they innocent or guilty or somewhere in between? And will the jury make the right judgment?

Ratings and reviews

4.0

12 reviews

Paul Kendall

July 15, 2019

Watched Mo's Story because it was so highly praised and because Olivia Colman won a Bafta. Colman is indeed good, but, the script is TERRIBLE. Characters are paper-thin. Casting Thomas Brodie-Sangster as a member of a gang on a rough estate is like casting Gemma Collins as Twiggy. And the discussions the characters have about gang violence are so simplistic it makes your toes curl. The fact this was filmed at the same time as Top Boy makes its failures even less excusable. A waste of time.

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