{"id":1819,"date":"2010-12-24T08:15:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T08:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2010-12-24T08:15:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T08:15:18","slug":"convicted-wife-killer-eddie-gilfoyle-freed-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1819","title":{"rendered":"Convicted wife killer Eddie Gilfoyle freed from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Miscarriage of Justice &#8211;\u00a0 role of Criminal Cases Review Commission]<\/strong><br \/>\nD, Eddie Gilfoyle, 49, killed V, his pregnant wife Paula, 32 by persuading her to climb a ladder in their garage, with a noose around her neck and hang herself in 1992. D fooled V into writing a suicide note.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Held<\/strong>: D appealed unsuccessfully against conviction twice, he will be allowed a third appeal after release on licecnce on 22 December 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guilty<br \/>\nComment<\/strong>: Gilfoyle has always insisted his wife took her own life.\u00a0 The rope later went missing and was never tested for DNA.<br \/>\nIn 2008,  Alison Halford, former assistant chief constable of Merseyside Police at the time, said there had been a &#8220;huge miscarriage of justice&#8221;.<br \/>\nA prisoner can now be released without admitting the charge.<br \/>\nBBC News item <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-merseyside-12065854\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Miscarriage of Justice &#8211;\u00a0 role of Criminal Cases Review Commission] D, Eddie Gilfoyle, 49, killed V, his pregnant wife Paula, 32 by persuading her to climb a ladder in their garage, with a noose around her neck and hang herself in 1992. D fooled V into writing a suicide note. Held: D appealed unsuccessfully against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}