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Evening Standard
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Callum Parke

New DNA evidence casts ‘sufficient’ doubt on 1987 murder conviction, court told

New DNA evidence is “sufficient fundamentally to cast doubt on the safety of the conviction” of a man who has spent 38 years in prison for murder, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has told the Court of Appeal.

Peter Sullivan was found guilty of the 1986 murder of 21-year-old Diane Sindall in Bebington, Merseyside, in 1987, but has remained in prison despite being sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years.

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