Sean Hodgson

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Sean Hodgson was convicted of the rape and murder of Teresa De Simone, whose body was found in her car outside a pub where she worked. Hodgson had confessed to a priest that he was the killer, and had admitted the offence on several other occasions to detectives, but no assessment was made of his mental state or his obsession with confessing to crimes he had not committed. At his trial, he retracted his admissions, pleaded not guilty and told the jury that he was a pathological liar. He successfully appealed after DNA evidence found at the scene was proved not to be his (this technology was not available at the time of his original trial).

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