Man, 68, has conviction for murder quashed after spending 38 years in jail

PETER Sullivan has said he is “not angry” and “not bitter”, after the Court of Appeal yesterday quashed his murder conviction - making him the longest-serving victim of a miscarriage of justice in the UK.

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The now 68-year-old, who was jailed in 1987 for the murder of Diane Sindall, a florist and part-time pub worker, and has since spent 38 years in prison, described what happened to him as “very wrong” but said the ruling did not “detract or minimise” a “heinous and most terrible loss of life”.

Mr Sullivan, from Liverpool, was aged 30 when he was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years after being found guilty of the 1986 murder of 21-year-old Ms Sindall in Bebington, Merseyside. He has remained in prison for almost four decades.