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Man who spent 38 years in prison for bartender's 1987 murder has conviction overturned: "I am not angry"

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Peter Sullivan , 68 , was convicted in 1987 of killing Diane Sindall in Bebington , near Liverpool in northwest England .

He spent 38 years , seven months and 21 days after his arrest, a total of 14,113 days in custody.

He is the longest-serving victim of a wrongful conviction in the U.K. , attorney Sarah Myatt says.

"As God is my witness, it is said the truth shall take you free," attorney says.

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