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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Evans and Amy-Clare Martin

Man behind bars for 38 years has murder conviction overturned in ‘UK’s longest-running miscarriage of justice’

A pensioner who has spent nearly 40 years behind bars has had his murder conviction overturned in what’s thought to be the longest-running miscarriage of justice in British history.

A Labour MP has called for an independent inquiry into the wrongful conviction of Peter Sullivan for the 1986 murder of Diane Sindall in what a No 10 spokesman described as a “grave miscarriage of justice”.

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