Returning: Innocent

Season 2 of UK anthology crime drama Innocent begins later this month on ABC.

The first season starred Lee Ingleby and Hermione Norris.

Screenwriter Chris Lang focuses upon a scandal that rocked the small Cumbrian town of Keswick in 2015 involving schoolteacher and student.

The 4 part series now stars 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.

8:30pm Sunday July 18 on ABC.