The court of appeal has quashed the conviction of a man who has spent 28 years in jail for a violent murder of which he has always claimed he was innocent.
Justin Plummer, now 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. She had been throttled with an electrical flex.
