Court quashes conviction of man twice found guilty of Bedfordshire murder

Justin Plummer spent 28 years in jail for 1997 killing of Janice Cartwright-Gilbert, who was found stabbed and throttled

The court of appeal has quashed the conviction of a man who has spent 28 years in jail for a violent murder he has always claimed he was innocent of.

Justin Plummer, aged 54, was convicted of the murder of 38-year-old Janice Cartwright-Gilbert in 1998, a year after she was fatally attacked at the building site of her future home near Wilden in Bedfordshire. Her body was found in a burning caravan with multiple stab wounds, a knife and scissors sticking out of her neck, having been throttled by an electrical flex.