'He deserves to be remembered': British man who wrongly spent 11 years in jail raises funds to restore murder victim’s grave

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British man Michael O'Brien/Image: WalesOnline A Welsh man who spent 11 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murder is raising money to restore the grave of the victim he was accused of killing, saying the man has been "largely forgotten" nearly four decades after the crime.Michael O'Brien, one of the Cardiff Newsagent Three, has launched the fundraising effort after visiting the grave of Philip Saunders, a Cardiff newsagent murdered in 1987, BBC reports."It just sort of hit home that one, the killer was still at large, and two, this man has largely been forgotten about," O'Brien said.Saunders was fatally attacked with a shovel outside his home after returning from work carrying the day's takings. Investigators believed the assault was linked to a robbery.Convictions overturned after 11 yearsO'Brien, along with Darren Hall and Ellis Sherwood, was convicted of Saunders' murder in 1988 and sentenced to life imprisonment.The convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1999, after the case became one of Wales' most significant miscarriages of justice. During the appeal, Hall's confession, which had been central to the prosecution's case, was found to be unreliable.De...

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