Carl Bridgewater review 'offers no new opportunities'

Credit: Family Photograph.

Staffordshire Police have released a statement following the recent screening of a documentary examining the death of Carl Bridgewater.

The episode of 'An Interview with a Murderer,'screened in June 2016 prompting the force to carry out a review of the case, including revisiting forensic evidence.

In a statement the force said:

Police say that to date there have been 14 separate reviews of the case carried out in the last 39 years, including a number of independent enquiries carried out by other forces.

The force added that unsolved crimes of this nature are never closed and victims of crime are never forgotten, they said: "Our thoughts are very much with Carl’s family and we continue to offer our support to them and, based on their wishes."

The 13-year-old was delivering papers in Prestwood in 1978 when he was shot dead, after apparently disturbing a burglary.

In one of the UK's most infamous miscarriages of justice - it emerged that four jailed over the death, Patrick Molloy, James Robinson and cousins Michael Hickey and Vincent Hickey had been wrongly convicted of killing the schoolboy.

The 13-year-old was delivering papers in Prestwood in 1978 when he was shot dead, after apparently disturbing a burglary. Credit: ATV News.

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