Man Has Murder Conviction Quashed After 26 Years In Jail

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday June 26, 2002 15:34 by Paul Meath

Irishman Frank Johnson who has spent 26 years in English prison is freed.

Irish-born Frank Johnson, now 66, has always maintained that he did not murder shopkeeper Jack Sheridan by setting him ablaze in east London on February 3, 1975. He had turned down the chance of parole, which would have enabled him to leave prison years ago, insisting he is innocent