Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders

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| genre = Docudrama

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| director = Bren Simson

| narrated = Lindsay Duncan

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| starring = Huw Higginson
Nicholas Marchie
Mark Spalding
Nick Burnell
Caroline Woodruff
Joanna Monro
Stephen Gurney
Duncan Primrose (police officer from van)
Shane Hodges
Wayne johnson
Mick Catt

Mick Catt

/>Robert Swann

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| executive_producer = Adelene Alani

| producer = Bren Simson

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| runtime = 50 minutes{{cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/2001-12-11|title=BBC One London - 11 December 2001 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}

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| channel = BBC1

| released = {{Start date|2001|12|11|df=y}}

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Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders is a British television docudrama, first broadcast on 11 December 2001, that dramatises the crimes committed by John Duffy and David Mulcahy, commonly known as the Railway Rapists or Railway Killers. The film, produced and directed by Bren Simson, is narrated by Lindsay Duncan, who provides additional details of the crimes, some of which are not dramatised in the film. Huw Higginson and Nicholas Marchie were cast as Mulcahy and Duffy respectively, with Steve Chaplin and Tat Whalley portraying teenage versions of the pair.{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8757ec64|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180610055646/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8757ec64|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 June 2018|title=Witness of Truth - The Railway Murders (2001)|publisher=}}

Adelene Alani acted as executive producer. Other notable cast members include Mark Spalding, who co-starred alongside Higginson in The Bill in 1995, Caroline Woodruff, Joanna Monro and Robert Swann. The film broadcast at 22:35;{{cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/5fa8b46cf68b451fbec7898f96fa76b3|title=Witness of Truth - the Railway Murders|date=6 December 2001|publisher=|issue=4058|pages=92|via=BBC Genome}} subsequently no viewing figures for the programme were recorded by BARB. The film has never been repeated and remains unreleased on VHS and DVD.