Peter Sullivan has said he is "not angry" after the Court of Appeal quashed his murder conviction

Peter Sullivan was jailed over the 1986 killing of 21-year-old barmaid Diane Sindall

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00:00a man who spent 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman in 1986 has had his conviction

00:07quashed at the court of appeal peter sullivan who was 30 when he was sentenced and is now 68

00:14is believed to be the uk's longest serving victim of a miscarriage of justice after three senior

00:20judges quashed his conviction for the killing diane sindle a 21 year old barmaid was found

00:25dead in bebbington in august 1986 when mr sullivan arrested the following month and convicted in

00:31november of that year he remained behind bars despite being given a minimum term of 16 years

00:37he first tried to challenge his conviction in 2008 with the criminal cases review commission declining

00:44to refer the case to the court of appeal before he lost his own appeal bid in 2019 he asked again the

00:51commission to refer his case in 2021 and it was found that dna samples taken from the scene did

00:57not match mr sullivan on tuesday three senior judges quashed his conviction after his case was referred

01:03to the court of appeal by the criminal cases review commission following the new dna evidence at the

01:09time of diane's murder dna was very much in its infancy and this vital evidence was not available to

01:16the original investigation team midside police confirmed that 260 men have been eliminated from

01:22the inquiry since it was reopened in 2023 and that none of miss sindle's loved ones are implicated

01:28the court heard that an unknown man called police after the murder to say he'd stolen

01:33and burned her clothes but he later retracted the account and the information was discounted because

01:39of bite mark evidence gathered as part of the prosecution