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Daily Mirror
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Laura Connor

Man wrongly convicted of Cardiff Newsagent Three murder meets victim's family

A man who spent 11 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit has finally come face-to-face with the victim's family in an emotional meeting.

Michael O’Brien, now 52, was one of three men - the so-called ‘Cardiff Newsagent Three’ - wrongfully convicted for the murder of Cardiff businessman Phillip Saunders in 1987.

After a traumatic decade in prison - in which he saw a man stabbed to death and his baby daughter died - Michael was released when the Court of Appeal quashed this conviction alongside two other men accused of the murder, Darren Hall and Ellis Sherwood.

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