Needle

Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.

Sean McKee

Danny

Emma Bird

Paula

Pete Postlethwaite

Paula's Father

Anna Keaveney

Council Leader

John Bennett

Chief Constable

Paul Barber

Drugs Counsellor

Gary Mavers

John

Jake Abraham

Greg

Andrew Naylor

Degsy

Philip Foster

Rollo

John Shackley

Stew

Stephen Walters

Viaduct Boy

Arthur Kelly

Bent Detective

Paul Codman

Arresting Officer

Andrew Schofield

Chief Vigilante

John Conteh

Charlie

Carleen Ann Lundon

Radio Reporter

Angela Walsh

Angry Mother