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Firkins, Lee

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Brothers Robert and Lee Firkins were convicted together in January 2006 at Exeter Crown Court for the murders in 2005 of Carol and Graham Fisher at their home at Perch, near Wadebridge in Cornwall.

The brothers pleaded not guilty to the murders. Both pleaded guilty to other offences including causing grievous bodily harm, actual bodily harm, possession of a firearm and robbery. They were sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 26 years.

Robert and Lee Firkins sought leave to appeal against the murder convictions in February 2006. Their appeals were dismissed. They applied to the CCRC for reviews of their convictions in January 2015.

The CCRC decided to refer their murder convictions for appeal because it believed that new evidence and argument gave rise to a real possibility the Court of Appeal would quash those convictions.

This new evidence was confidential and highly sensitive.

The CCRC referred the conviction in July 2020.