Wrongly convicted of murder: 38 years to free Peter Sullivan

He has spent more than half his life in prison. Peter Sullivan walked free today after the Court of Appeal quashed his murder conviction, making him the longest-serving victim of a miscarriage of justice in the UK.

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He was just 30 when he was jailed in 1987 for the killing of Diane Sindall. Two attempts to overturn the conviction failed, but new DNA techniques proved he was not the killer.

Now 68, he wept and held his head in his hands as he was told he would be released.
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