Jason Pitter KC, for Mr Sullivan, said 'significant admissions' and 'incriminating statements' made by Mr Sullivan at the time of the killing were 'inherently unreliable' due to his 'vulnerability'

The now-68-year-old, who was jailed in 1987 for the murder of Diane Sindall and has since spent 38 years in prison, described what happened to him as 'very wrong'

A man who has spent 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman in 1986 has had his conviction quashed at the Court of Appeal.

The Liverpudlian actor and director, who was best known for playing Jimmy Corkhill in the Mersey TV soap, died at the age of 68 on Wednesday following a “short illness”, his family said