Good morning. No living victim of a miscarriage of justice has endured their punishment for as long as Peter Sullivan. On Tuesday, 38 years after the murder of 21-year-old florist and part-time pub worker Diane Sindall, Sullivan’s conviction was finally overturned on appeal because of DNA evidence found in semen samples preserved from the scene of the crime.
The decision means that the culprit for the appalling sexual killing of Sindall has never been found. It also means that Sullivan finally has official recognition of the wrong he faced. Extraordinarily, his response did not dwell on the failures that led to his decades in prison. “I’m not angry, I’m not bitter,” he said in a statement read by his lawyer. “What happened to me was very wrong but does not detract [from the fact] that what happened was a heinous and most terrible loss of life.”
