An innocent man convicted of a murder he did not commit was this week awoken by helicopters and armed police searching for a stolen government laptop left in an unlocked car.
John Kamara, originally from Toxteth, was wrongly jailed over a brutal botched robbery on a bookies in Lodge Lane in 1981, which saw the shop manager, 23-year-old John Suffield, tied up and stabbed 19 times.
After living in peace since he was acquitted on appeal in 1999, at around 9am on Monday morning (February 13) Mr Kamara had to witness officers from Surrey Police leading his 18-year-old university student son away as armed police milled around in his garden.
