How Did the Justice System Get It This Wrong? (2025)

It’s Peter Sullivan’s first weekend outside of jail in almost four decades, he was released this week after 38 years of protesting his innocence, his case is the biggest wrongful imprisonment scandal in British legal history. Time and again he claimed that he wasn’t the rapist and killer of 21 year old Diane Sindall but his conviction in 1987 stood until DNA was finally accepted as evidence that he was innocent all along. There’s been no apology. How did the police and system get it so wrong? What compensation will Peter get? How many more innocent folk are waiting for appeals and what hope Diane’s true killer will ever be found? Our latest episode of This Much is True Crime is out now on all major platforms link in bio.