Please Can You Help Identify This Tv Police Drama

[hellywelly4]

Music teacher abducted while taking dog for walk in woods with young daughter and her friend. Man confesses to murder. Body found in sawmill owned by brother of man who confessed. He finds baseball bat convered in blood in guitar case of his young nephew who is a gifted musician and plays the guitar very loudly all the time.
I think it's a UK police drama but just can't remember which, and it's driving me mad!!

[mallyh]

the undoing with nicol kidman and hugh grant ?

[mallyh]

oops wrong show sorry

[carolegif]

Sounds like a Midsomer Murder!

[hellywelly4]

No definitely not a Midsomer one - I never watch them. Thanks anyway Carole.

[mallyh]

body of proof ?

[Peter Pedant]

this is the one where they go back to the saw mill
and find bits of her in the saw dust of the saw,
and the man runs away ...

[hellywelly4]

Not body of proof Mally. Thanks anyway.

[elliemay1]

Might it have been a Hitchcock drama??

[hellywelly4]

No ellie. Definitely not.
The woman lived with her husband and a male teacher at the school they worked at. At the end it turns out that her husband and the teacher were an item. They tried to cover up their relationship.
The boy's father is also a brilliant musician and teaches his son over the phone from prison.
The woman who was abducted tried to get the boy away from the two brothers as it was a very disfunctional family.

[Milo2]

Was it Innocent?

[Ringlet]

I watch a lot of crime dramas on Britbox and the Drama channel. I watched the programme you describe quite recently, and I think it was an episode of "Vera" that I had recorded from the Drama channel.

I have been concentrating on remembering the actors, and can vividly remember the two actors who played the two brothers (one the father of the boy, the other the uncle) and also the actress who played the boy's mother. I can't yet visualise the detectives who questioned them - but I am almost certain it was Vera and her team.

[Ken4155]

It's definitely not Vera, Ringlet. I've just visited Wicki and read the story-lines for all episodes to date and none resemble the OP's query.

[elliemay1]

I also checked out Vera episodes, also Taggart and The Coroner!

[barry1010]

Vera - the Darkwater episode

[Ringlet]

Ha! My mistake - it was not an episode of Vera - it was in fact an old episode of Trial and Retribution.
Series 6, episode 11. With David Hayman as Mike Walker and Victoria Smurfitt as Roisin Connor.
First broadcast on 6th October 2002.
Here is the synopsis.
"When a young mother of two, Diane Leach, is abducted from a local wood, the confession of a local sex offender (played by Ivan Kaye) complicates matters. The abducted woman is a music teacher, and the confessor is the father of one of her pupils, a young boy with a huge musical talent. The woman's body is found in a local sawmill, owned by the boy's uncle.
As Pat looks into the possibility that the father of the young boy may be responsible for the woman's death, Walker has worries of his own, as his ex-wife Lyn is dating an abusive, unstable man."
Thank goodness I got that sorted out - it was driving me mad, trying to remember.

[elliemay1]

Well done Ringlet! Best Answer for you!

[Lie-in King]

Well done indeed, Ringlet! Saved a lot of brain-ache there :-)

[Ken4155]

Speaking of Vera - new series begins Sun 29 Aug at 8 pm ;-)

[barry1010]

Thank heavens that's solved - I can sleep tonight.
Looking forward to the new series (can 2 episodes be called a series?) of Vera

[hellywelly4]

Wonderful. Thank you so much all of you for taking the trouble to look for me. Ringlet - you’re an absolute star, I would never have got there, thank you.