Peter Sullivan has murder conviction quashed after 38 years in jail
by Mark Brown , Haroon Siddique and Aletha Adu from World news | The Guardian on (#6X882)
Hearing told that DNA evidence found at the scene of Diane Sindall's murder was not that of the 68-year-old
A 68-year-old man who has spent 38 years in jail has had his murder conviction quashed at the court of appeal in what is thought to be the longest-running miscarriage of justice in British history.
Peter Sullivan was wrongly convicted in 1987 for the frenzied murder of a florist and part-time pub worker, Diane Sindall, 21, who was killed as she left work in Bebington, Merseyside.
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