IT'S no exaggeration to say that the injustice suffered by Peter Fell is enormous.

The law recognised he was not a double murderer four years ago when his conviction was overturned.

But that was only after he had served 18 years in prison - more than many so-called life sentences.

He had not been released earlier because he had, not surprisingly, failed to come to terms with his "crime" by admitting his guilt!

This week we have also heard that Hampshire police, who dealt with a case which Hyndburn MP Greg Pope described as "mishandled from start to finish", are not going to re-investigate the brutal killing of two women on Aldershot Common.

They say they do not have the resources to find the real murderer.

Meanwhile Peter Fell has had to pick up the pieces of his own life without any help from the government department ultimately responsible for his time in jail.

After four years of freedom he still hasn't received a penny in compensation.

In fact there is still a possibility that the Home Office may try to recoup thousands of pounds from him for food he ate while wrongfully imprisoned.

Greg Pope is quite right when he says: "You couldn't make it up, could you?"