Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
GenreDocudrama
Directed byBren Simson
StarringHuw Higginson
Nicholas Marchie
Mark Spalding
Nick Burnell
Caroline Woodruff
Joanna Monro
Stephen Gurney
Duncan Primrose (police officer from van)
Shane Hodges
Wayne johnson
Mick Catt

Mick Catt

/>Robert Swann
Narrated byLindsay Duncan
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producerAdelene Alani
ProducerBren Simson
Running time50 minutes[1]
Original release
NetworkBBC1
Release11 December 2001 (2001-12-11)

Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders is a British television docudrama, first broadcast on 11 December 2001, that dramatises the crimes committed by John Duffy and David Mulcahy, commonly known as the Railway Rapists or Railway Killers. The film, produced and directed by Bren Simson, is narrated by Lindsay Duncan, who provides additional details of the crimes, some of which are not dramatised in the film. Huw Higginson and Nicholas Marchie were cast as Mulcahy and Duffy respectively, with Steve Chaplin and Tat Whalley portraying teenage versions of the pair.[2]

Adelene Alani acted as executive producer. Other notable cast members include Mark Spalding, who co-starred alongside Higginson in The Bill in 1995, Caroline Woodruff, Joanna Monro and Robert Swann. The film broadcast at 22:35;[3] subsequently no viewing figures for the programme were recorded by BARB. The film has never been repeated and remains unreleased on VHS and DVD.

Cast

  • Huw Higginson as David Mulcahy
  • Nicholas Marchie as John Duffy
  • Steve Chaplin as Young David Mulcahy
  • Tat Whalley as Young John Duffy
  • Mark Spalding as Det. Supt. Andy Murphy
  • Nick Burnell as Det. Insp. Mark Freeman
  • Caroline Woodruf as Det. Con. Caroline Murphy
  • Joanna Monro as Jenny Cutler
  • Stephen Gurney as Det. Con. Larry Larmour
  • Robert Swann as Det. Supt. Les Bolland
  • Sarah Farooqui as Alison Day
  • Claire Kent as Maartje Tamboezer
  • Leah Fletcher as Ann Lock
  • John Saglimbeni as Joseph Clark
  • Joanna Kirkland as Stella Arnold
  • Jayne Dobson as Tina Clark
  • Emma O'Donoghue as Pamela Taylor
  • Duncan Primrose as police officer in van
  • Shane Hodges- Ginger Police officer
  • Mick Catt - Police officer in van
  • Wayne Johnson - Police officer in van

References

  1. ↑ "BBC One London - 11 December 2001 - BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
  2. ↑ "Witness of Truth - The Railway Murders (2001)". Archived from the original on 10 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "Witness of Truth - the Railway Murders". 6 December 2001. p. 92 – via BBC Genome.
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