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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Athena Stavrou

Man wrongly jailed for 38 years says police ‘bullied’ him into false confession

A man who was wrongly jailed for almost 40 years for a murder he didn’t commit has described being beaten by police officers and “bullied” into a false confession.

Peter Sullivan was handed a life sentence when he was convicted in 1987 of the brutal murder of 21-year-old florist Diane Sindall, in Bebington, near Merseyside.

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