Stuart Layden was convicted in 2013 of murdering Ian Church outside a Great Yarmouth pub in May 2012, and was handed a mandatory life sentence with a minimum jail term of 13 years.

The Court of Appeal overturned the conviction in 2015 after his lawyers argued the judge’s directions regarding the identification evidence in his case had been inadequate.

The court ordered a retrial, and said that Layden should be arraigned – asked how he pleads – on a fresh indictment within two months.

He was convicted and jailed for nearly nine years after the retrial in 2016 but Court of Appeal judges also quashed this conviction in 2023, as Layden had not been arraigned within the two month limit.

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