'Never forgotten' Woman's killing shook community

People still lay flowers at the granite memorial stone close to the place in Birkenhead where Diane Sindall met her horrific, shocking death.

- Mark Brown

People still lay flowers at the granite memorial stone close to the place in Birkenhead where Diane Sindall met her horrific, shocking death. It reads: "Murdered 2.8.1986 because she was a woman. In memory of all our sisters who have been raped and murdered. We will never let it be forgotten."

On Merseyside, the legacy of the killing is still felt today. For nearly four decades many assumed that the right man had been convicted. That was turned on its head yesterday when the court of appeal ruled that Peter Sullivan was an innocent man.

Sullivan was not the "Beast of Birkenhead", the "Mersey Ripper" or "Wolfman". He was not the unspeakable monster still etched in the memory of so many. He spent 38 years in category A jails for a crime he did not commit.

It means there may be someone alive who did kill Sindall and could, and should, be brought to justice.