New York City to pay millions to man wrongly convicted of 1996 murder

Grant Williams, left centre, is embraced by his lawyer Irving Cohen after his murder conviction is vacated (Jan Somma-Hammel/Staten Island Advance/AP)

New York City has agreed to pay seven million dollars (£5.6 million) to a man who spent 23 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit.

Grant Williams was exonerated last July in the 1996 shooting of Shdell Lewis outside a Staten Island public housing complex.