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Man wrongly convicted of murder freed after 28 years following new DNA evidence produced by police

USA: David McCallum was 16 when he was jailed for killing Nathan Blenner, 20, in New York - but he is now a free man after a judge agreed that DNA and fingerprints found at the crime scene did not belong to him.

A man wrongly convicted of murder has been freed after 28 years in prison after new DNA evidence emerged which cast doubt on his guilt.

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