The man who spent 38 years in prison on charges of killing a waiter in 1987, the condemnation said: “I am not angry.”

A man spent nearly four decades in a British prison in the death of one of the waiters that he was not angry or bitter as the killing was convicted of the newly available DNA.

Peter Sullivan put his hand on his mouth and it seems that he became emotional because the London Appeals Court ordered him to be convicted after years of attempts to purify his name.

Lawyer Sarah Maiat outside the court said he was a victim of the longest victim of an illegal conviction in the United Kingdom. His launch came after 38 years, seven months and 21 days after his arrest, a total of 14113 days in reservation, BBC mentioned. He spent about a year of that time reservation in pretrial detention while waiting for the trial.

Sullivan, who watched the video session from Wickfield prison in northern England, said in a statement that he was not upset and was keen to see his loved ones.

“Since God is witnessed, it is said that the truth will take you free,” he reads from the statement. “It is unfortunate that it does not give the time range as we are advancing towards solving the mistakes I made for me. I am not angry, I am not bitter.”

Sullivan, 68, was convicted in 1987 by killing Diane Sindal in Beipington, near Liverpool in northwestern England. He spent 38 years behind bars.

Police said that the 21 -year -old Sindal, a flower who was working for marriage, was returning home from a part -time job at the Friday night in August 1986 when her gas truck run out. The last time she was seen walking all the way after midnight.

Her body was found about 12 hours later in an alley. I have been sexually assaulted and beaten.

The sexual fluid on Sindall is not scientifically analyzed until recently.

The court heard that technology has been developed only recently to the extent that the semen sample, which was recovered from Sindall, can be tested for the DNA. Defense lawyer, Jason Peter, said a test in 2024 revealed that he was not Sullivan.

“The case of the prosecution is that it was one person. He was a person who is a sexual assault on the victim,” Peter said. “The evidence here is now that one person was not the defendant.”

Prosecutor Denkan Atkinson did not challenge the appeal and said that if the DNA is available at the time of the investigation, it is unreasonable for Sullivan to be tried.

Mercyside police said they reopened the investigation as the appeal was ongoing and was “committed to everything” to find the killer.

The BBC, coach, coach, coach Karen Yinderl, said more than 260 men have been examined and have been canceled from the renewed investigation since 2023.

She said: “We have recruited specialized skills and expertise from the National Crime Agency, and with them, we are proactively trying to identify the person to whom the person belongs to the DNA file, and the extensive and stricken inquiries are ongoing.”

The Criminal Cases Review Committee, which is studying illegal convictions, refused to refer the Sullivan case to the Court of Appeal in 2008, and the court moved away from its appeal in 2019.

But CCRC took the case again when the new DNA was available.

Judge Timothy Holroid said: “In light of this evidence, it is impossible to consider the appellant’s condemnation safe,” said Judge Timothy Holroid.

Sullivan’s sister, Kim Smith, was reflected outside the court in the case of two families.

“We have lost Peter for 39 years, and at the end of the day, not only us,” Smith said. “Peter did not win and the Sindall family did not have. They lost their daughter, and he will not restore her. We have prepared Peter and now we must try to build the life of those around him again.”