In 1991, Oliver Campbell was incarcerated for the murder of Baldev Hoondle, an east London shopkeeper.
Following his detention, he was questioned without the presence of an attorney and subsequently found guilty of both murder and robbery, but his companion Eric Samuels was only found guilty of the robbery.
On Wednesday, a panel of three judges declared that Mr. Campbell’s conviction was “unsafe”.
The attorneys for Mr. Campbell maintained that neither the entire scope of his mental health problems nor the proof that another individual had been identified as the gunman were presented to the trial jury.
This year in February, Mr. Campbell, who is free on a license, told news on the eve of his appeal.
The choke chain that has been around my neck for thirty-three years will fall off if I win, yet I am not yet free.
“I’m still a prisoner of the criminal justice system, still under the Home Office because they can recall me to prison any time.”
When questioned about why he had confessed to the investigators who had arrested him, he replied, “I was under police pressure, under duress.” It was similar to being locked in a room with no way out. I was completely exposed.
“They would have realized I was wrongfully incarcerated, falsely convicted, and wrongly arrested if they had done their homework.
