Angels with Dirty Faces

Maureen Bradshaw reports that her late father has had £25,000 stolen from under his bed – but the only visitor he had before he died was local priest Father Hopkirk. Early investigations discover that Father Hopkirk is coincidentally raising money to send a local boy to America for a life-saving operation – surely the priest can't be in the frame? But when it emerges that Albie Bradshaw is an exarmed robber, is a different kind of morality at work? Meanwhile, an unsound conviction comes back to haunt Sgt Bill Gentle (David Hargreaves) when he attends the funeral of a man he put away for murder. Gentle revives his former partnership with retired copper Bernard Oulton (Supt Jim Oulton's father) to turn over some old stones. Did they really get it so wrong all those years ago? And, if they did, who was really the guilty party?