"A 20,000 reward has been offered for information as detectives try to solve a murder that saw the wrong man spend almost 40 years in prison. Diane Sindall, 21, was murdered in Birkenhead, Merseyside, in the early hours of Saturday 2 August 1986. Her body was discovered by a member of the public in an alleyway off Borough Road in the Wirral town several hours later. She had been sexually assaulted and suffered extensive injuries."
"Then 30 years old, Peter Sullivan was convicted of her murder in 1987, leading to him being dubbed The Mersey Ripper and The Beast of Birkenhead. Mr Sullivan, who had protested his innocence for decades, had his conviction quashed in 2025 after the Court of Appeal heard DNA evidence showed the killer was someone else. He spent 38 years behind bars in what is the longest miscarriage of justice in UK history."
Diane Sindall, age 21, was murdered in Birkenhead, Merseyside, in the early hours of 2 August 1986; her body was found in an alleyway off Borough Road, having been sexually assaulted and suffering extensive injuries, with cause of death recorded as a cerebral haemorrhage. Peter Sullivan was convicted of the murder in 1987 and spent 38 years in prison before his conviction was quashed in 2025 after DNA evidence showed the killer was someone else. There is currently no match for the identified DNA on the national database and detectives continue to seek information, with a reward offered through Crimestoppers.
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