A lawyer who led a review into the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s work has said it is “absolutely inevitable” there will be more miscarriages of justice after Peter Sullivan was released from prison after spending 38 years inside for a murder he did not commit.
Sullivan was convicted in 1987 of the murder of 21-year-old Diane Sindall, who was killed as she left work in Bebington, Merseyside. The court of appeal quashed Sullivan’s murder conviction on Tuesday after new evidence showed his DNA was not present in samples preserved from the scene.
