Crime drama, Innocent, returns for the second series, starring Shaun Dooley, with Katherine Kelly and Jamie Bamber.
Five years ago 39 year old Teacher Sally Wright was convicted of murder. And although it was never proven, she was also accused of having a sexual relationship with one of her sixteen-year-old students: gifted and talented Matty Taylor.
Overnight her life imploded …she lost her freedom, her job as a teacher, she miscarried whilst on remand and inevitably her marriage collapsed and two years into her sentence, her husband Sam filed for divorce.
As the first episode opens Sally is finally free …her guilty verdict overturned in the face of incontrovertible evidence proving her innocence. And outside the court, as she states her determination to recover everything she lost, one by one we meet those whose lives were touched by the murder:
Sam, Sally’s former husband is now in a new relationship and on the threshold of marriage to Karen: a single mum and former family friend. Her daughter Bethany’s resentment at Sam’s intrusion into her life prises open a deep fault-line in the relationship with her mother.
Matty’s parents John and Maria Taylor continue to be convinced of Sally’s guilt but they too seem to be holding back on a dark, shared confidence: bound by a lie that neither will ever reveal to another living soul.
And Anna Stamp who was Matty’s contemporary at school: it’s obvious she’s never accepted the reality of his passing …her witness statement was key to Sally’s conviction and as suspicion grows around her motive for such perjury, a deep-seated, pathological hatred for Sally begins to emerge.
DCI Braithwaite is charged with responsibility for the new investigation. If Sally didn’t kill Matty, then who did and why?
It seems that all those in orbit around Matty’s young life had reason to lie to themselves and to deceive each other.
