16-05-2025
Peter Sullivan: Failed justice in the hunt for Beast of Birkenhead
The judge jailing Peter Sullivan in 1987 said that the sadistic murder of Diane Sindall was 'an abomination and an outrage'.
Judge Ernest Sanderson Temple, the Recorder of Liverpool, then commended Detective Superintendent Thomas Baxter, one of two officers who led the investigation.
Outside court Sindall's father, Brian, said: '[Sullivan] has never shown one sign of remorse. I wish they would hang him.'
Sullivan left prison on Tuesday as Britain's longest-serving victim of a miscarriage of justice having spent 14,113 days behind bars.
There are many questions about how he was wrongly convicted and the real identity of the 'Beast of Birkenhead' who has escaped justice for 38 years.
Baxter was later involved in two other high-profile miscarriage of justice cases. Although there is no
