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Murder in the Graveyard Audio Book - a brutal murder and a wrongful conviction - narrated by author Don Hale.

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Murder in the Graveyard Audio Book - a brutal murder and a wrongful conviction - narrated by author Don Hale. True facts finally revealed about a fascinating 50-year-old murder mystery. Order your audio copy via this link:  https://amzn.to/45WpYu3 A gripping true crime investigation into the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history. In September 1973, Stephen Downing was convicted and indefinitely sentenced for the murder of Wendy Sewell, a young legal secretary in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District. Wendy was attacked in broad daylight in Bakewell Cemetery.  Stephen Downing, the 17-year-old groundskeeper with learning difficulties and a reading age of 11, was the primary suspect.  He was immediately arrested, questioned for nine hours, without a solicitor present, and pressured into signing a confession full of words he did not understand. Twenty-one years later, local newspaper editor Don Hale was thrust into the case. Determined to take it to appeal, as he inve