Love/Hate star Robert Sheehan will play the lead role in an episode of the new series of BBC One’s crime and punishment drama Accused.

Written by Jimmy McGovern (Cracker, Sunday), Accused focuses on a different story each week, and Sheehan will appear in the second episode, co-written by McGovern and Danny Brocklehurst (Exile, The Street).

He will play a teenager called Stephen who has very serious reservations about Charlotte (Sheridan Smith), the palliative care nurse assigned to look after his mother.

He becomes increasingly paranoid about the welfare of his younger brother Dom (Josh Bolt) and is at loggerheads with his father Peter (John Bishop).

But has Stephen something to hide?

Also appearing in episodes of the second series are Anne-Marie Duff, Olivia Colman and Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Filming begins this month in Manchester and surrounding areas.

Source: RTE.