3 w. ago Female prison guards are having to strip search the top half of transgender criminals before male colleagues check their lower regions in bizarre new jail ruling

Inmates at HMP Dovegate say they have been left 'humiliated' by the alleged treatment. But women's rights activists have hit out and claimed female officers should not be used to check trans inmates..

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4 w. ago Peter Sullivan was wrongly jailed for 38 years – and it’s not a bizarre one

The case is a reminder that there are still people in prison who were jailed based on false confessions, Brian Thornton writes

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4 w. ago Detective who helped wrongly jail man for 38 years implicated in second scandal

Former police chief Tom Baxter spearheaded the inquiry that saw Peter Sullivan wrongly convicted of the brutal killing of 21-year-old florist Diane Sindall before going on to clear detectives in the Bridgewater Four scandal

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4 w. ago Peter Sullivan faces 'terrifying risk' after wrongfully spending 38 years in jail for murder

After 38 years behind bars, Peter Sullivan, who was wrongly convicted of the 1986 murder of Diane Sindall, is at last a free man. But the now 68-year-old will be walking out into a very different world from the one he once knew

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last month Inside HMP Wakefield, where Peter Sullivan was wrongly held for murder

Peter Sullivan has been freed from notorious prison nicknamed ‘Monster Mansion’

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last month Peter Sullivan has murder conviction quashed after 38 years in jail

Hearing told that DNA evidence found at the scene of Diane Sindall’s murder was not that of the 68-year-oldA 68-year-old man who has spent 38 years in jail has had his murder conviction quashed at the court of appeal in what is thought to be the longest-running miscarriage of justice in British history.Peter Sullivan was wrongly convicted in 1987 for the frenzied murder of a florist and part-time pub worker, Diane Sindall, 21, who was killed as she left work in Bebington, Merseyside. Continue reading...

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last month Peter Sullivan’s statement after wrongly spending 38 years in jail

His conviction has been quashed.

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