{"id":82273,"date":"2023-11-29T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T11:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=82273"},"modified":"2023-11-29T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T11:09:14","slug":"mother-of-murdered-julie-hogg-breaks-down-in-tears-in-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/mother-of-murdered-julie-hogg-breaks-down-in-tears-in-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of murdered Julie Hogg breaks down in tears in documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Moment mother of murdered Julie Hogg breaks down in tears in Channel 5 documentary as she recalls &#8216;double jeopardy&#8217; law change that allowed her daughter&#8217;s killer to be convicted in 2006 &#8211; 15 years after he was found not guilty<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ann Ming, now in her late 70s, would not rest until she got justice<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Julie Hogg was murdered by Billy Dunlop at her home in Teeside in 1989\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She is the mother whose defiant crusade upturned 800 years of British legal history.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Ming, now in her late 70s, would not rest until she got justice for her daughter Julie Hogg, who was murdered in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>She successfully campaigned to get the double jeopardy law &#8211; which ruled that a suspect could not be tried twice for the same offence &#8211; struck down.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter&#8217;s killer, Billy Dunlop, strangled and then sexually mutilated Julie, before hiding her body under the bath in her own house.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was found not guilty at trial in 1991, but then subsequently confessed to the killing. It was not until 2006 that he was finally convicted of the crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The case is explored in tonight&#8217;s episode of Channel 5\u00a0series The Incident Room.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A moving scene shows Ms Ming break down as she recalls the moment that the law change came into effect in 2005.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After re-watching news footage of the reaction of her and her husband Charlie when the law was changed, she says: &#8216;It was a good day, that, I&#8217;ll tell you that. I was speechless for I think the first time there.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/10\/78363213-12803747-image-a-1_1701252052165.jpg\" height=\"814\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Julie Hogg was murdered by Billy Dunlop in 1989. Her body was hidden under her bath<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2005, she had prophetically said: &#8216;Hopefully by the 17th anniversary of Julie&#8217;s death, we will finally have Billy Dunlop convicted of her murder.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dunlop ultimately pleaded guilty to the killing at his second trial. He had initially been acquitted after claiming that evidence against him had been planted.<\/p>\n<p>Nine years after Julie&#8217;s murder, in 1997, Dunlop stabbed his ex-girlfriend with a carving fork and beat up her lover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was sentenced to seven years in prison for grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>While in prison, the killer bragged to a guard that he had murdered Julie but would never be able to go to prison for it because of the double jeopardy law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the help of Brian Mckenzie, a leading police officer, Ms Ming began campaigning, determined to change the law and see her daughter&#8217;s killer face justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/10\/78363221-12803747-The_case_is_explored_in_tonight_s_episode_of_Channel_5_series_Th-m-3_1701252157929.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The case is explored in tonight&#8217;s episode of Channel 5 series The Incident Room. Julie&#8217;s mother Ann Ming, now in her late 70s, is seen breaking down in tears as she recalls the law change that allowed Dunlop to be convicted<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/10\/78363179-12803747-Billy_Dunlop_sexually_assaulted_and_then_murdered_Julie_He_was_a-m-5_1701252203906.jpg\" height=\"860\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Billy Dunlop, sexually assaulted and then murdered Julie. He was acquitted of her muder in 1991 but then successfully convicted in 2006<\/p>\n<p>Julie went missing from her home in Billingham, County Durham, in November 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Police searched her house but did not find anything. It was Ms Ming who found her daughter&#8217;s decomposing body in February 1990.<\/p>\n<p>The courageous mother, who had 20 years experience as a nurse, had initially been told by her son-in-law about a terrible smell coming from the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Noticing that a bath panel was loose, she prised it open just enough to see inside,\u00a0revealing the horrifying sight of her daughter&#8217;s naked body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Julie was working as a pizza delivery driver at the time of her death. The mother-of-one was separated from her husband but still very close to her family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the night of her killing, Dunlop &#8211; who had once had a sexual encounter with Julie &#8211; turned up at her home.<\/p>\n<p>When Julie refused to let him in, he forced his way into the house and attacked her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After mutilating her, he wrapped her body in a blanket and then stuffed it under the bath.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police sent a forensics team to search the house, but they did not check under the bath.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ming told the Mail in an interview in 2000 that the officer in charge of the case had guaranteed that &#8216;nothing had happened to her in the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After finding her daughter&#8217;s remains, Ms Ming ran out of the house screaming. Ms Ming went on to make a formal complaint to police and was given \u00a310,000 in an out-of-court settlement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Julie&#8217;s keys were found to have Dunlop&#8217;s finger prints on them, and hairs from his head were found on her body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DNA tests also linked him with the semen stains on the blanket that he used to wrap up Julie&#8217;s body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/10\/78364417-12803747-image-a-6_1701252215593.jpg\" height=\"934\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ann Ming is seen at her home near Stockton-on-Tees in January this year<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/10\/78364419-12803747-image-a-9_1701252260381.jpg\" height=\"535\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Julie Hogg in 1984. Her mother finally got justice after a years-long campaign to change the law<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/10\/78364413-12803747-image-a-7_1701252234369.jpg\" height=\"808\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Julie Hogg with her father Charlie on her wedding day in August 1985<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/10\/78363211-12803747-The_house_in_Grange_Avenue_Billingham_Teesside_where_Julie_Hogg_-m-10_1701252362356.jpg\" height=\"474\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The house in Grange Avenue, Billingham, Teesside, where Julie Hogg was murdered by Billy Dunlop<\/p>\n<p>At Dunlop&#8217;s first trial, the jury was unable to reach a verdict. A second trial was ordered and the new jury again failed to come up with either a unanimous or majority verdict, so Dunlop was acquitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When in prison for the attack on his ex-girlfriend, 60 hours of conversations were recorded in which Dunlop detailed his murder of Julie to a female prison officer who had befriended him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dunlop then repeated his admissions to police, who charged him with committing perjury at both of his murder trials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dunlop was given six years for the two perjury offences, leaving Ms Ming distraught.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ming continued campaigning and was eventually successful. The 2003 Criminal Justice Act abolished the double jeopardy rule for serious offences. It came into force in 2005.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dunlop became the first person to be tried twice for the same crime. He was jailed in October 2006.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Dunlop was refused permission by the Ministry of Justice to move to an open prison. He became eligible for parole last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since Ms Ming&#8217;s campaign, the law change has enabled more than a dozen convictions, including of the killers of black teenager Stephen Lawrence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12803747\/mother-julie-hogg-tears-channel-5-documentary-double-jeopardy-row-law-change-killer-convicted.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moment mother of murdered Julie Hogg breaks down in tears in Channel 5 documentary as she recalls &#8216;double jeopardy&#8217; law change that allowed her daughter&#8217;s killer to be convicted in 2006 &#8211; 15 years after he was found not guilty Ann Ming, now in her late 70s, would not rest until she got justice Julie&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mother of murdered Julie Hogg breaks down in tears in documentary - posterboyedit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/mother-of-murdered-julie-hogg-breaks-down-in-tears-in-documentary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mother of murdered Julie Hogg breaks down in tears in documentary - posterboyedit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Moment mother of murdered Julie Hogg breaks down in tears in Channel 5 documentary as she recalls &#8216;double jeopardy&#8217; 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