On 12 September 1973 a seventeen-year-old na ve and vulnerable
young gardener Stephen Downing returning from a short lunch break
encountered the badly beaten and unconscious figure of thirty-two
year old Wendy Sewell lying on the footpath of Bakewell Cemetery
close to Catcliff Wood and the consecrated chapel where she had
been attacked. Stephen ran to the nearby workmen's building and in
the meantime the perpetrator of the attack who had been hiding,
dragged Wendy's body out of sight to a second location where she
was subsequently found soon after. There then occurred a horrifying
sequence of events which were to change his young life forever. He
was immediately taken into custody and questioned at length without
a solicitor and eventually signed a false confession statement and
Wendy was to die some two days later from her injuries. Following a
very biased prosecution based three day trial during February 1974
Downing was found guilty by a jury, convicted and sentenced to what
was eventually a full life sentence. Just eight months later during
October 1974 there followed an appeal with fresh evidence from an
eye witness who saw Wendy Sewell alive after Downing left the
cemetery for lunch, however the prosecution rubbished this evidence
and the appeal failed. In the many years which followed Downing's
incarceration he was moved from prison to prison, continuing to
maintain his innocence and in doing so jeopardised any chance of
parole as he was In Denial Of Murder until eventually his plight
reached journalist Don Hale, whose tireless efforts eventually led
to a Criminal Cases Review and appeal in which Downing was released
as a middle aged man after some twenty-seven years, the longest
miscarriage in the United Kingdom legal history.
General
| Imprint: |
Pen & Sword True Crime
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
November 2019 |
| Authors: |
Stephen Downing
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
192 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5267-4202-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5267-4202-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781526742025 |
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