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Murder conviction overturned after 27 years due to DNA evidence

Thursday 19 March 2009 at 10:23 pm | In News | Post Comment

57-year-old Sean Hodgson was present in the dock to hear the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, and two other senior judges in London, rule that his 1982 murder conviction was “unsafe”.

The safety of the conviction was reviewed in the light of new DNA evidence – which showed that he could not have been the murderer.

News report here