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Daily Mirror
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Jonathan Humphries & Hollie Bone

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Innocent man jailed for 20 years as murderer while key evidence sat in storage | History Defined

A man, wrongly jailed for 20 years over a murder he didn't commit, has told how the ordeal "took over" his life after a key witness statement proving his innocence was locked away in a store cupboard.

John Kamara was given a life sentence for the murder of betting shop manager, John Suffield, 23, who was stabbed 19 times in a botched robbery in 1981.

John maintained his innocence after the murder in Liverpool, Merseyside, but was found guilty after a witness who claimed she saw two mixed race men attacking Mr Suffield, later picking John out of a line up.

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