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- Stephen Downing was convicted of the murder of Wendy Sewell, who was attacked and sexually assaulted in 1973 and died two days later from her injuries. Stephen had found Wendy badly injured but still allive. At that time he was 17 but had the reading age of an 11 year old.
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Stephen Downing was convicted of the murder of Wendy Sewell, who was attacked and sexually assaulted in 1973 and died two days later from her injuries.
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Stephen Downing. Stephen Downing worked for the local council as a gardener in the Bakewell cemetery where Wendy Sewell was murdered. He was 17 years old, with a reading age of an 11-year-old, when he was tried and found guilty of the murder of Sewell. He served 27 years in jail.
Stephen Downing was found guilty by all members of the jury, and was convicted of murder. He was sentenced to be detained at Her Majesty's pleasure (indefinitely), with the stipulation that he should serve a minimum of ten years.
Jan 15, 2014 · A retired police officer has reported Derbyshire police to the Home Office over claims they withheld evidence in a 1973 murder case. Bakewell man Stephen Downing was convicted in 1974 for killing...
The Stephen Downing case involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32-year-old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in Derbyshire, central England.
May 16, 2016 · CASE STUDY – Stephen Downing. R. v. Stephen Downing [2002] EWCA Crim 263 In September 1973, Ms Wendy Sewell was attacked in Bakewell Cemetery, Derbyshire. She was beaten with the handle of a pickaxe around the head and was sexually assaulted.
Nov 15, 2000 · A graveyard gardener with learning difficulties, who has spent the past 27 years in prison for a murder he denies carrying out, yesterday became the longest-serving British prisoner to have his...
