Connecticut to pay $25m settlement to men wrongly convicted in 1985 murder

Two men convicted partly on evidence presented by Dr Henry Lee, who in July was found liable for fabricating evidence in the case

Connecticut has agreed to pay a $25m settlement to two men who spent decades in prison for a brutal murder they did not commit, and whose convictions were partly based on evidence presented by a forensic scientist who worked on some of America's most notorious criminal investigations and trials.

Ralph Ricky" Birch and Shawn Henning were convicted for the 1985 murder of Everett Carr after Dr Henry Lee - whose name would later become widely known in connection with the OJ Simpson, Lana Clarkson and JonBenet Ramsey cases - testified about blood" evidence on a towel and how blood from the victim's wounds had spattered in an uninterrupted" fashion.