Age: 20
Sex: male
Date: 7 Jan 1996
Place: Cowley Road, Oxford
Steven Burton was stabbed at his house.
A man was tried for his murder in 1996 but acquitted. However, he later confessed, but because of the laws at the time on double jeopardy he could not be tried again for the murder, but he was convicted of perjury for lying at his first trial and sentenced to three years. However, after the laws on double jeopardy changed, the police attempted to try him again for the murder, but their application was rejected by judges who said that there were doubts over his confessions which were in part described as manifestly false.
