By Amelia Ward Sheridan Smith is set to play the leading role in a gritty new drama after the play she made her West End comeback in was slated by critics and axed two months early. In her next project, she will portray Ann Ming, the mother who battled to change the law after her daughter Julie Hogg was murdered by her ex-partner in 1989. After fighting for 15 years, Ann succeeded in changing the 800-year-old “double jeopardy” law, which meant people couldn’t be tried twice for the same crime. The new ITV drama will be based on Ann’s book, For The Love Of Julie. A source revealed to The Sun: “…