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A MAN who served two jail sentences for robbery won a decades-long fight yesterday to have his convictions overturned.
Martin Foran, 70, who lives in Manchester and is suffering from cancer, won his appeal against convictions for four counts of robbery dating back to 1978.
His success at the Court of Appeal yesterday follows an earlier victory last year when the court overturned his “unsafe” 1985 convictions for robbery and conspiracy to rob.
His 1978 convictions have now also been ruled unsafe and quashed.
Mr Foran was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment in 1985 after being convicted following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
In June 1978, following another trial at Birmingham Crown Court, he had been jailed for a total of ten years.
The convictions were referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice.
