What the records say
- When
- 12 Sep 1973
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 51.73° N, 3.08° W
- Description
- one of Britain's longest miscarriage's of justice in British legal history
Placed at the town its description names, British.
Murder of Wendy Sewell
1973 English killing and subsequent legal case
On 12 September 1973, Wendy Sewell, a 32-year-old legal secretary from Bakewell, Peak District in Derbyshire was found beaten, sexually assaulted and murdered. In 1974, 17-year-old Stephen Downing was convicted of the murder.
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