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A man whose craving for attention led to his conviction for the murder of a man wrongly suspected of being a paedophile was released today after seven years on the orders of the court of appeal.
Three senior judges ruled that fresh medical evidence cast doubt on whether 47-year-old Ian Lawless could have played the part he claimed in the 2001 killing of retired sea captain Alf Wilkins in Grimsby.
Lawyers for the family of Lawless, a fantasist who tried to persuade fellow prisoners on remand that he was a Taliban fighter, triggered the fresh hearing by presenting medical findings to the criminal cases review commission. The former cellarman was given a life sentence in 2002 for setting fire to the flat of 67-year-old Wilkins,
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