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Murder of Wendy Sewell. In 1974, 17-year-old Stephen Downing was convicted of murdering Wendy Sewell, a 32-year-old legal secretary, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in Derbyshire. Following a campaign by a local newspaper led by Don Hale, in which Sewell was purported to be promiscuous, Downing's conviction was overturned in 2002.
Stephen Downing. Stephen Downing was born in 1956. He worked for the local council as a gardener. He worked 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 Wendy Sewell. He served 27 years in jail.
Jan 26, 2017 · Don Hale is a journalist who helped to free Stephen Downing, one of Britain's most notorious miscarriages of justice. He also campaigned for Barry George and Ched Evans, and faced police intimidation and death threats.
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Stephen Downing was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1973 and spent 27 years in prison. He was exonerated in 2001 based on new evidence that challenged the forensic and confession evidence against him.
Jan 15, 2014 · Stephen Downing was wrongly convicted of killing Wendy Sewell in 1973, but his case was reopened in 2002 and his conviction was quashed. A retired police officer claims he found a pathology report that shows she was strangled, which was not presented at the trial.
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Nov 15, 2000 · Stephen Downing, 44, could have been released a decade ago. But because he refused to admit to the crime he was classified by the Home Office as an IDOM prisoner - in denial of murder. Assumed to ...
Feb 8, 2001 · Thu 8 Feb 2001 03.31 EST. Stephen Downing, who supporters claim is the victim of Britain's longest-running miscarriage of justice, was freed on bail yesterday with the expectation that his ...
