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“Parade,” Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s 1998 musical about a historic miscarriage of justice involving a Jewish man wrongly accused of murder in the Jim Crow South, was considered a succès d’estime.

Both the Crown Prosecution Service and Merseyside Police said they appreciated the impact of the miscarriage of justice on Mr Sullivan, but said the technology to get a DNA profile from samples like the ones recovered did not exist until very recently.

The Miscarriage of Justice Compensation Scheme is separate to any civil legal action that could be brought against any public authority.

Peter Sullivan is the victim of the longest miscarriage of justice experienced by a living inmate in the UK.

The only miscarriage of justice that took longer to be acknowledged by the criminal justice system was when Derek Bentley's conviction for murder was overturned in 1998 - and he had been hanged in 1953, a year after he was convicted.