] A conviction for the murder of a cinema manager, that
] sent a young Liverpool labourer to the gallows 53 years
] ago, was yesterday overturned by the court of appeal.
]
] George Kelly was executed at Walton jail on Merseyside in
] March 1950, following what was then the longest criminal
] trial in English legal history. His plea for clemency had
] been rejected by the home secretary of the day, James
] Chuter Ede.

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