Dennis Perry was sentenced to life in prison when a jury convicted him in 2003 of murdering the Swains.
He spent two decades in prison before a Superior Court judge ordered a retrial in 2020.
The judge dismissed all charges against Mr Perry in 2021 after prosecutors asked to drop the case.
Investigators and the courts took a fresh look at the case after attorneys for the Georgia Innocence Project tested DNA from hairs found in the hinge of a pair of glasses left next to the victims’ bodies.
They said the DNA matched Sparre, who had once been considered a suspect, and not Perry.
Baroness Hodge, former chair of one of Westminster's most influential select committees, is being lined up to lead a review of Arts Council England's use of public money amid a growing backlash in the cultural sector over the direction of its funding.Sky News has learnt that the Labour peer, who chaired the public accounts committee and was a minister during Gordon Brown's premiership, is close to being appointed by Lisa […]
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