Police were today deciding whether to reopen the investigation into the brutal murder of Wendy Sewell, after Stephen Downing was cleared of the crime by the Court of Appeal after serving 27 years ...

Police said they were unable to rule out Stephen Downing, 46, of Bakewell, Derbyshire, as the man who carried out the murder of typist Wendy Sewell in 1973. And they also criticised campaigning ...

Jayne Atkins was 15 when she saw Wendy with another man after Stephen Downing had left the cemetery where the housewife was later found beaten to death. But afterwards she was so terrified of ...

Stephen Downing, who served 27 years in jail for the brutal murder of a woman, was finally cleared by the Court of Appeal today. Three judges quashed his conviction as "unsafe", but stopped short ...

Stephen Downing, 46, is to be offered the huge damages by the Home Office and the police. He was 17 when typist Wendy Sewell was bludgeoned to death in the cemetery where he worked in his home ...

Stephen Downing, 47, of Bakewell, Derbyshire, has been interviewed and released on police bail in connection with the allegations. A police spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that a 47-year-old ...