Miscarriage Of Justice: Man In Prison For 38 Years For Murder Has Conviction Quashed
A man who has spent 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman in 1986 has had his conviction quashed at the Court of Appeal.
Peter Sullivan, who was 30 when he was sentenced and is now 68, is believed to be the UK’s longest-serving victim of a miscarriage of justice after three senior judges quashed his conviction for the killing, 17 years after his first attempt to have it overturned.
Diane Sindall, a 21-year-old barmaid, was found dead in Bebington, Merseyside, in August 1986, with Mr Sullivan arrested the following month and convicted in November 1987, but has remained behind bars despite being given a minimum term of 16 years.
He first tried to challenge his conviction in 2008, with the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) declining to refer the case to the Court of Appeal, before he lost his own appeal bid in 2019.
He again asked the CCRC to refer his case in 2021, and the commission found that DNA samples taken from the scene did not match Mr Sullivan.
Talk’s Mike Graham discusses the story with criminal defence barrister Quentin Hunt.
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