Oliver Campbell’s murder conviction overturned after 33 years

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Oliver Campbell’s ******* conviction overturned after 33 years

A man with learning disabilities who says he felt under pressure to confess to ******* has had his conviction quashed after 33 years.

Three judges ruled on Wednesday that Oliver Campbell’s conviction for the ******* of Baldev Hoondle in Hackney in July 1990 was “unsafe”.

Oliver Campbell’s purported confession at the time was made up amid the stress of being interviewed, judges have previously heard.

His lawyers and supporters say his confession simply mirrored what he had watched on BBC’s Crimewatch.

In their ruling, Lord Justice Holroyde, sitting with Mr Justice Bourne and Mrs Justice Stacey, said they had “concluded that the convictions are unsafe”.

In 1991, Mr Campbell was jailed for life after being convicted of the ******* of Mr Hoondle, who had been shot ***** in a botched robbery carried out by two men.

Mr Campbell was released on a life licence in 2002 and lives on his own with the assistance of a close group of friends and helpers.

The quashing of the conviction comes 20 years after the ********* Cases Review Commission, the miscarriages of justice body, rejected his pleas for help – and after two inquiries were triggered into how it had handled the case of Andy Malkinson,

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