By the time this episode was broadcast. New Labour was in power for two years. Although a lot of the sleaze of the previous years were of the Tory kind.
Barbara Watkins (Penelope Wilton) is a government minister who faces a charge of engaging in the sexual abuse of a 15 year old boy some years earlier.
Now as an adult with a chequered criminal history, Philip Boxer has gone to the police. DCI Bob Kelso believes him, in fact he seems to encourage Boxer to take the matter to court. Only later on Boxer refuses to testify against Watkins.
Although acquitted, Watkins loses her ministerial position. Now she engages Kavanagh to sue the police for malicious prosecution. In short Kelso tried to fit her up.
No doubt the story was inspired by the likes of Jonathan Aitken, the Tory MP who sued the Guardian or libel and lost his case. Then later convicted for perjury.
It is a twisty episode, almost played like a chess game. The moral is the danger of hubris.
Barbara Watkins (Penelope Wilton) is a government minister who faces a charge of engaging in the sexual abuse of a 15 year old boy some years earlier.
Now as an adult with a chequered criminal history, Philip Boxer has gone to the police. DCI Bob Kelso believes him, in fact he seems to encourage Boxer to take the matter to court. Only later on Boxer refuses to testify against Watkins.
Although acquitted, Watkins loses her ministerial position. Now she engages Kavanagh to sue the police for malicious prosecution. In short Kelso tried to fit her up.
No doubt the story was inspired by the likes of Jonathan Aitken, the Tory MP who sued the Guardian or libel and lost his case. Then later convicted for perjury.
It is a twisty episode, almost played like a chess game. The moral is the danger of hubris.