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- ↑ "BBC - Press Office - In Denial of Murder". www.bbc.co.uk.
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- ↑ "Local media gong".
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- ↑ Henderson, Eugene (8 September 2013). "After 40 years I'm prisoner to a murder I didn't commit".
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