Campaigner John Bray fought for years to clear Reg Dudley and Bob Maynard after they had been convicted of two gruesome gangland killings in the Seventies.

Now the Court of Appeal has quashed their convictions and Mr Bray, from Haywards Heath, is delighted.

But it all came too late for Brighton publican Oliver Kenny, who had his name wrongly linked with the killings, for he died 25 years ago.

Key prosecution witness Anthony Wild told a court a severed head had been taken to Mr Kenny's pub, the Horse and Groom, in Islingword Road.

Mr Kenny died before he was able to contradict this story, which was later discovered to have been untrue.

While he never went to prison, unlike Dudley and Maynard, he was unjustly vilified and this should be made clear when Appeal Court judges give the reasons for their decision.