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January 15th: Stephen Downing's Second Appeal Started(2002)

What happens when police get it wrong? Or, in this particular case, what if they got it right but the appeals court got it wrong? On January 15th 2002 a man started his second appeal in a case where, he claimed, he was completely innocent. A claim that divides opinion even today with many wondering if a guilty man managed to be let out of prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Wendy_Sewell, https://www.the-sun.com/news/4763164/what-happened-wendy-sewell/, http://truecrimeinvestigators.co.uk/the-wendy-sewell-murder/

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