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Murder of Linda Cook
The murder of Linda Cook was committed in Portsmouth on 9 December 1986. The subsequent trial led to a miscarriage of justice when Michael Shirley, an 18-year-old Royal Navy sailor, was wrongly convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1992 his case had been highlighted as one of 110 possible miscarriages of justice in a report presented to the Home Office by the National Association of Probation Officers and justice groups Liberty and Conviction. His conviction was eventually quashed in 2003 by the Court of Appeal after the DNA profile extracted from semen samples recovered from the victim's body was proven not to be his. Cook's murder took place shortly after six sexual assaults had been committed in the Buckland area of the city, and the killer was initially dubbed the ''Beast of Buckland'' by the news media.〔 When police revealed that footprint evidence had been recovered and launched a search for matching shoes, the case became known as the "Cinderella murder". Because of the brutal nature of the murder and the preceding sex attacks, Hampshire police were under public pressure to quickly make an arrest.〔〔
Shirley's later exoneration of the murder after serving 16 years of his sentence is significant as the first time that a UK court quashed a previous conviction on the basis of presentation of new DNA evidence. It was also the first occasion in which the Criminal Cases Review Commission supported an appeal on the basis of newly available DNA evidence.〔 After serving the minimum tariff of 15 years, Shirley would have been released from prison had he confessed the killing to the parole board, but he refused to do so and said: "I would have died in prison rather than admit something I didn't do. I was prepared to stay in forever if necessary to prove my innocence."
==The murder==
Linda Cook was a 24-year-old barmaid, living at the home of Linda Gray on Victoria Road North, Portsmouth.〔Paragraph 14〕 Cook had been in a relationship with Gray's son since August 1986 and had moved into the Gray family home at the beginning of November 1986.〔Paragraph 14〕 Gray's son had been remanded to a detention centre on 14 November 1986, but Cook had stayed on in the premises.〔Paragraph 14〕 Gray was able to account for Cook's whereabouts for most of 8 December 1986, and stated that at approximately 23:30 Cook went to visit a friend in Sultan Road, Portsmouth.〔Paragraph 14〕 Shortly after midnight on 9 December 1986 she left the friend's house to walk home.〔 Some time between 00:30 and 01:00 she was attacked on an area of wasteland known as "Merry Row", adjacent to Lake Road.〔Paragraph 2〕〔 〕 Her assailant raped and strangled her, stamping upon her several times and with such force that her jaw and spine were fractured, her larynx crushed, and imprints of his right athletic shoe were retained on her abdomen.〔Paragraph 2〕〔Paragraph 23〕〔〔 The attack took at least 15 minutes.〔Paragraph 4〕〔Paragraph 27〕 Her naked body was discovered later that day.〔Paragraph 2〕
A number of vaginal, anal, and vulval swabs were taken by the pathologist, and subsequent forensic examination confirmed the presence of semen, from which the blood type of the killer was determined.〔Paragraph 4〕 Trace evidence was also gathered, including fibres from beneath Cook's fingernails.〔Paragraph 21〕 It was noted that her fingernails "were long and unbroken, suggesting that she did not scratch her attacker, or at least did not do so with any ferocity."〔Paragraph 21〕 Her underwear was found nearby, and subsequently tested negative for traces of semen.〔Paragraph 11〕〔Paragraph 12〕 This, combined with the knowledge of her whereabouts since 10:00 the previous morning, meant that "the semen found inside () vagina had been deposited there after her underwear had been removed and consequently was deposited by her attacker."〔Paragraph 13〕
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