ĭuring filming the actor playing Glitter ( Hilton McRae) walked onto set and was hissed at and insulted when the crowd thought it was the real Glitter. Coldstream argued that "The time was right for a thought-provoking and compelling drama that would confront viewers with the consequences of the death penalty", after UK polls in June and September that year had shown more than 50% of Britons supported bringing back capital punishment. He said that he had the idea for the programme after reading a report in a national newspaper that had said that "If Gary Glitter was to be strung up in Trafalgar Square tomorrow, nobody would turn a hair". Rob Coldstream, the creator of the programme, wrote an account of the premise and production behind the drama which was published in The Independent in November 2009. Garry Bushell: as himself, a journalist.Miranda Sawyer: as herself, a journalist.Ann Widdecombe: as herself, a politician.Louisa Rix as Valerie Clark: Home secretary.The film ends shortly after Glitter is hanged, having continued to protest his innocence right up until his death.Īll cast are shown in the order they appear in the credits: Still adamant he will be released, Glitter finds himself back in the charts just before he is executed, though the song turns out to be a mocking remix of one of his hit songs combined with a leaked recording of his own words from his trial speech. Glitter maintains his innocence and files an appeal to the Home Secretary, which is dismissed shortly before the scheduled execution. Glitter is told there are no mitigating circumstances shown, and he is sentenced to death due to concerns over extreme waiting time on death row, the law requests his sentence is to be carried out within 30 days. Glitter is found guilty, and the debate over sentencing begins. The evidence of the alleged offences is shown, as well as Glitter's statements to the police, and witnesses give their evidence, including Glitter himself. His trial goes ahead after an appeal for dismissal is denied. Glitter continuously proclaims his innocence, the public cry for justice and his death, while the media rake through his previous charges and history of offences. A history of the campaign to bring back capital punishment is shown from its inception in 2004, as well as interviews with the public and people in positions of responsibility and their attitudes towards capital punishment. He is suddenly shocked into reality when he is informed of the change in UK laws, and that the ultimate sentence he may face is death. He is informed of the possibility of either the case being dismissed or won due to the newness of the laws, and because the offfences concerned were committed abroad. Glitter meets his lawyer after returning and being arrested. Glitter applies for entry to Hong Kong and Thailand, but is forced to return to the UK, where he is to be charged with child rape and to stand trial as a paedophile for "category one sex offences" committed whilst abroad.
He is indicted shortly after its inception and his simultaneous extradition to the UK from Vietnam after serving three years there for sex offences. Set in an imaginary Britain in which the death sentence has been reintroduced, the drama examines the possible outcomes of Glitter being the first to be put on trial under the imagined "Capital Crimes Act", which reintroduced hanging as a penalty for murder or rape of a child under 12.
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