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When a man has spent 17 years in prison for a crime that he didn’t commit, there are many urgent questions about policing and the criminal justice system which need answering.  Andrew Malkinson, who will never get back those years after being wrongfully convicted of raping a woman in a violent attack in 2003, certainly

They including a paedophile psychiatrist, a cold case killer and multiple murderers.

Brother remembers doting sister he lost to a killer 50 years ago

An elderly man, originally from South Africa, has been sentenced for killing a woman in Islington, London, 49 years ago in a cold case that was solved thanks to a DNA breakthrough.



John Apelgren, 80, was found guilty of manslaughter after sex worker Eileen Cotter, was found strangled by a block of garages in Finsbury Park, north London, on the afternoon of 1 June 1974.

Former minicab driver guilty of assault and manslaughter of woman in 1974

John Apelgren, 80, was sentenced for 10 years and 6 months over the death of Eileen Cotter, who he throttled before throwing her out of his car.

John Apelgren, 80, was sentenced for 10 years and 6 months over the death of Eileen Cotter, who he throttled before throwing her out of his car.

John Apelgren, 80, hit sex worker Eileen Cotter in the face and throttled her before throwing her body out of his car, the Old Bailey heard.

An 80-year-old man has been jailed for manslaughter after strangling a young woman nearly half a century ago. John Apelgren has been convicted after h...