"A man wrongly jailed for 38 years has spoken of being beaten by police and bullied into making a false murder confession. Peter Sullivan, 68, the subject of one of the longest miscarriages of justice in British history, said he had lost everything and wanted an apology from Merseyside police. Sullivan was wrongly convicted in 1987 for the frenzied murder of Diane Sindall, 21, a florist and part-time pub worker who was killed as she left work in Bebington, Merseyside."
"Six months after his release from jail, Sullivan, in an interview with BBC North West, claimed he had been beaten on two occasions by police officers in his cell. They threw a blanket over the top of me and they were hitting me on top of the blanket with the truncheons to try and get me to cooperate with them, he said. It really hurt, they were leathering me."
Peter Sullivan, 68, was wrongly convicted in 1987 for the murder of 21-year-old florist Diane Sindall and served 38 years in prison. His conviction was quashed in May after new DNA tests. He alleges police beat him on two occasions in custody, covering him with a blanket and hitting him with truncheons, and says he was denied food, sleep and an appropriate adult despite recorded learning difficulties. He claims officers threatened to charge him with 35 additional rapes to force a confession. He says he lost his freedom and both parents during imprisonment and seeks an apology from Merseyside police.
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