Roy Barber / Father Kahle
Ian Connaughton / Reporter
Charlotte West-Oram / Downing Street Secretary
Roy Carruthers / Albany Prison Officer
Andy Serkis / Ian Brady
Karen Bayley / Holloway Prison Officer
Karen Spragg / Patricia Cairns
Kika Markham / Governor Wing
John-Paul Hurley / Photographer
Richard Sinnott / Journalist 1
David MacCreedy / Journalist 2
Daniel Maley / Schoolboy 1
Ross Tomlinson / Schoolboy 2
Gordon Langford Rowe / Judge
Ron Meadows / Defence Barrister
Tina Malone / Elsie
Anton Rodgers / William Whitelaw
Martina McClements / Home Office Secretary
C.P. Hallam / Fred Harrison
Pamela Cheshire / Cookham Wood Prisoner
Richard Attlee / Roy Jenkins
Amelia Dearing / Young Girl
David Frost / Self - TV Presenter /  Interviewer (archive footage)
Janet Fullerlove / Prison Officer
Quintin Hogg / Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Cliff Michelmore / Self - Reporter (archive footage)
John Mortimer / Self (archive footage)
Michael Nicholson / Self - Reporter (archive footage)
Liam Thomas / Newsagent
Anne West / Self - Lesley Anne Downey's Mother (archive footage)