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Vera is a nearly retired detective chief inspector of the fictional Northumberland & City Police, who is obsessive about her work. She plods along in a dishevelled state but has a calculating mind and despite her irascible personality, she cares deeply about her work and colleagues.
As Vera Stanhope, Brenda Blethyn helped create both a revolutionary television character and one of ITV's longest-running series. Our columnist says goodbye to 'Vera.' Column: There's never been a ...
The woman's seemingly quiet life turns out to be anything but, as Vera's investigation begins to unravel a tangled web of lies and deceit. An old acquaintance of Vera's father appears to hold the key to the entire mystery, which involves unraveling a murder committed thirty years previously, a rape, and an affair which nobody suspected would be ...
Clare Michelle Calbraith (born 1 January 1974) is an English actress, born in Winsford, [1] Cheshire, and raised in Liverpool and Cheshire, whose appearances include roles in Vera, the ITV period drama series Home Fires and Downton Abbey, together with the BBC2 drama The Shadow Line.
The effect of a whole life order is that the prisoner serves the sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Whole life orders have been reportedly issued in approximately 100 cases since introduction in 1983, although some of these prisoners have since died in custody, or had their sentences reduced on appeal.
Under the new legal framework, Lopes, who was 20 when he shot and killed Chesna and Adams, would be eligible for parole in 20 to 30 years. Sentencing is scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 31.
Ann Cleeves OBE (born 24 October 1954) is a British mystery crime writer. She wrote the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, and Matthew Venn series, all three of which have been adapted into TV shows.
Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams is expected to be resentenced to life without parole under a consent judgment reached Wednesday, the St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney’s Office ...