Eric Smokes and David Warren, 56 and 53 years old today, spent 24 and 20 years in prison, from which they were released on parole in 2011 and 2007. The two wrongly accused have continued to proclaim their innocence but the courts only reopened their investigation in 2022 with a view to a possible review of the judgment.
Investigators notably examined police reports from the time and re-interviewed teenage witnesses in 1987. It turned out that the testimonies against these young people were either false or contradictory, or given under duress.