A FORMER East Lancashire man freed from jail after 18 years for a double murder he did not commit has married.

Born again Christian Peter Fell, 40, wed fiancee Elaine, 32, at the church where they met, the Metropolitan Tabernacle Church in South London.

The couple met a year after Peter was cleared in March 2001 of the 1982 murders of Anne Lee and Margaret Johnson in Aldershot Common.

Peter, whose mother Maureen lived in Accrington, was brought up at Blake Gardens Children's Home in Great Harwood.

He attended Norden High School in Rishton before joining the army.

He was living in Hampshire when he was arrested.

Peter today told the Lancashire Evening Telegraph that only close friends attended the wedding.

Peter is still fighting for compensation for wrongly spending 18 years behind bars. He said: "We met in church and we are very happy. Elaine knows the whole situation and she's been brilliant.

"She comes from Malaysia and it was important to her that her parents approved."

The couple have now gone on a fortnight's honeymoon at a secret location.

Peter, who still has family living in the Hyndburn area, was jailed for life in 1984 after confessing to the murders of the two women walking their dogs on Aldershot Common.

Three Appeal Court judges took minutes to clear him after it emerged he was a "pathological confessor" at the time of the murders, and evidence supporting his alibi was not given at the original hearing.