Jun 16th, 2009 - Times Online
A man who has spent eight years in jail after being found guilty of murdering a retired sea captain in Grimsby has today had his conviction overturned.
Ian Lawless, now 47, was said to have drunkenly confessed in the pub to the 2001 murder of Alf Wilkins, a former tugboat captain whose home was firebombed.
Mr Wilkins' body was found lying on the kitchen floor of his smoke-damaged flat on the Yarborough estate, next to his black Alsation dog Lucky.
