ITV - first episode last night and one thing emerges - Sheridan Smith is one of our greatest actresses. But also, interesting how police can really try yet, even with best intent, fail. I have no idea how true to life this is, and I've yet to watch the full series, but we see both ends of the police in this and other cases. I've been on the bad side three times - first time, they won. Second and third - I won. It's useful getting older and wiser. Anyway - so far - smack on - worth watching.

A huge team spent FIVE DAYS searching her house and failed to find her body hidden under the bath! Similar in both 2001 and 2015 - I had to spend two nights in a hotel (plus one in the police station) and, amongst other things, they pulled the marble front off my bath and took up all the floorboards looking for child porn (there was none and, surprisingly, they found nothing). In 80 That's All Folks I show in detail how they conclusively found that one liar who claimed to have been 14 had in fact been over 16 on the dates claimed yet police and CPS continued to charge me over a 14 year old when their own officers (resigned) told bosses it was impossible.

I'm enjoying this series for which I've seen two episodes. I'm not aware of the real-life case, but there is also a documentary on itv about Mrs Ming also called "I fought the law".

I keep having to remind myself that Sheridan Smith is attractive, as she looks like Hilda Ogden in this series.

I've now watched all 4 - Sheridan Smith will definitely win the Best Actress award. Superb (her character's husband Charlie also terrific).

I enjoyed the series, but I felt that Mrs Ming wasted large parts of her life being embitted and revengeful when she could have been enjoying her life, and spending time were her husband and children, rather than focusing on her dead daughter.

Her poor husband struggling away in his burger van, whilst his wife gives up work to get revenge on her daughter's killer, who was in prison anyway. The Jack Straw character looked nothing like him.

I don't think that the double jeopardy law should be retrospective. You can't live your life for laws that haven't been made yet.