Accused

Mo Murray is taking a stand against drugs, gangs and gun crime in her local community, but she now stands alongside her mother Maureen and her 17-year-old son Jake in the dock. The reasons why are revealed before the verdict comes in.

17-year-old Stephen Cartwright stands charged with a having commited a serious offence, as his anxious father Peter watches on in the courtroom. It is several months earlier and Peter is attempting to help his sons Stephen and Dom face the imminent death of their beloved mother. After the palliative care nurse Charlotte shows up Peter is grateful of her help. Stephen is not so sure about the efficient nurse assigned to see his mother through her final days. After she passes away, Stephen becomes more suspicious of Charlotte's motivations. Stephen's anxieties and depression intensify causing more problems.

Tina Dakin stands accused in the dock as she awaits to hear the verdict. Several months earlier and Tina is feeling overstretched at home and at work. She and her husband are finding it hard to make ends meet. Tina accompanies a new inmate, Stephen Cartwright, into the young offender's institution where she works as a prison officer. She senses that something isn't right though as she shows him his cell. She tells her senior officer Frank about her concerns. After an emergency elsewhere requires her attention, she returns her worst fears have become a very real tragedy. It appears that Stephen has taken his life. Tina's troubles get worse though when a series of betrayals and cover-ups result in her becoming the victim of a terrible crime.