DNA tests conducted in the UK convicted of murder 30 years ago, showed that this man is not involved in the crime. As reported by BBC News, now 57-year-old Sean Hodgson (Sean Hodgson) may be released from prison, which has spent the last 27 years.
Hodgson was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 22-year-old barmaid Theresa De Simone (Teresa De Simone), who found the body in her car in December 1979 in the town of Southampton. It then installed by experts, the girl had been strangled. Three years later, the court found Hodgson guilty of this crime.
Now, experts conducted a review of the application of new technologies that did not exist in those days, and came to the conclusion that the semen found at the murder De Simone, could not belong Hodgsonu.
It is noted that in the case of the murder of barmaid, when it was seen for the first time, included an analysis of blood killers. Her group coincides with the defendant's blood. However, as the BBC News, according to the criteria under suspicion and could get a third man on the planet.
The case Hodgsona directed to the court for review.
At the law firm "Padva, Heslam-Jones & Partners" Lente.ru "told that in recent years the world has already reviewing the cases of convictions based on the results of DNA tests. In particular, genetic tests were being used extensively in the U.S. penal system.
However, lawyers from the company Padva, Heslam-Jones & Partners is not aware of that convictions in Russia, has been revised based on the results of DNA tests.
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