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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

Schizophrenia diagnosis could see strangulation killer's conviction overturned

Emerald Wardle was killed at a home at Metford in June, 2020. Her boyfriend, Jordan Miller, was found guilty of murder in Newcastle Supreme Court in 2022, a jury finding the psychosis he was suffering was caused solely by using drugs.

A YOUNG man found guilty of murder after he strangled his girlfriend to death will find out in the next two weeks whether his conviction will be overturned after fresh psychiatric evidence shed new light on the cause of his mental illness.

Jordan Miller, now 24, was in 2022 found guilty of murdering his 18-year-old girlfriend Emerald Wardle at Metford in June 2020 after a jury found the psychosis he was suffering was caused solely by using LSD and cannabis.

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