Freed inmate 'should not have had verdict returned'
A man who was released from prison yesterday after 26 years behind bars insisting he was innocent of murder, should not have had a verdict returned against him at his 1976 trial because he was suffering from mental illness at the time, the Court of Appeal announced today.
On the afternoon of his first full day of freedom, Mayo-born Frank Johnson, 66, attended London’s Law Courts as three judges explained why they had decided his conviction was ‘‘unsafe’’.
