A man was trusted on Tuesday, May 13 for British Justice after 38 years in prison have passed by the murder of a woman in 1986, one of the worst judicial errors in the United Kingdom.
Peter Sullivan, who was 30 when he was sentenced and is now 68 years old, had challenged his sentence in vain several times. The London Court of Appeals finally innocent, explaining that the DNA found in the victim did not correspond to his.
“A pity that all this has happened”
Peter Sullivan, who attended the video audience of his prison, heard the decision with his head down and his arms crossed. He cried and brought his hand to his mouth when his sentence was canceled.
In a declaration read for his lawyer, he said that “he was not angry” and “not bitter.”
“I lost my freedom four decades ago due to a crime that I did not commit,” said the lawyer.
“What happened to me was very unfair, but that did not decrease or did not minimize the fact that all this happened due to unbearable death,” he continued.
Diane Sindall, a 21 -year -old waitress, had been found dead in Babington, Mersyside, in the northwest of England in August 1986. Peter Sullivan was arrested the following month and sentenced in November 1987.
Peter Sullivan’s sister, Kim Smith, told journalists after the hearing is “delighted” for the Court of Appeals. But “it is a shame that everything has happened,” he added.
The Merseyside police explained that the DNA test was not available during the initial investigation. The police “will do everything” to find the person whose DNA has left the scene in which Diane Sindall died, said Chief researcher Karen Jandrill, deplorating that “the identified DNA does not correspond to any other in the national database.”
Source: BFM TV
