Trailer: Showtrial
When a climate activist is left for dead in a hit and run, he uses his dying moments to apparently identify a serving policeman as his killer.
When the high-profile climate activist Marcus Calderwood is left for dead in a violent hit and run, he uses his dying moments to apparently identify his killer - a serving policeman. But who is this unnamed 鈥極fficer X鈥�? What does his own history reveal about the nature of trauma and revenge, and was Marcus鈥檚 death actually a careless accident or cold-blooded murder?
From Calderwood鈥檚 last breath to the jury鈥檚 final verdict, Showtrial takes us into the worlds of the charismatic and cocky officer PC Justin Mitchell (Michael Socha); Sam Malik (Adeel Akhtar), an anxious defence solicitor with a reputation for winning lost causes; and Leila Hassoun-Kenny (Nathalie Armin), a wry and rigorous CPS lawyer leading the case against the accused.
As public outrage reaches fever-pitch, Showtrial questions if a fair trial is possible when tensions are riding so high, and if the truth is ever clear cut.
