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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Mark Brown , Haroon Siddique and Aletha Adu

Peter Sullivan has murder conviction quashed after 38 years in jail

Peter Sullivan
Peter Sullivan was 30 when he was sentenced and is now 68. Photograph: Merseyside police

A 68-year-old man who has spent 38 years in jail has had his murder conviction quashed at the court of appeal in what is thought to be the longest-running miscarriage of justice in British history.

Peter Sullivan was wrongly convicted in 1987 for the frenzied murder of a florist and part-time pub worker, Diane Sindall, 21, who was killed as she left work in Bebington, Merseyside.

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