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Body exhumed in 1979 murder case
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| Sean Hodgson |
The body of a man suspected of murdering a woman 30 years ago has been exhumed at a graveyard.
The suspect was identified after the case was re-opened when DNA evidence proved Sean Hodgson, who served 27 years for the crime, did not carry out the 1979 murder of Teresa de Simone.
Hampshire Police have confirmed the body has been removed of the newly-identified prime suspect at Kingston Cemetery, Portsmouth.
Yesterday detectives revealed that the suspect was a young man at the time of the killing and did not come from Southampton, where the murder took place.
A police spokesman said: 'Following the reopening of the investigation into the murder of Teresa De Simone in Southampton in 1979, the investigation team has declared a suspect.
'The suspect is dead and the investigation team has exhumed his body in order to obtain further DNA evidence.'
Sean Hodgson, 58, from County Durham, had his conviction quashed at the Court of Appeal in March this year after consistently claiming he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
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