Holden, Kerry

Kerry Holden pleaded not guilty to murder when she stood trial at Nottingham Crown Court for stabbing Luke Moran to death in the early hours of Sunday 21st August 2011 after a party in the Clifton area of the city.

It was the prosecution case that Ms Holden stabbed Mr Moran once in the chest. There were, however, no witnesses to the stabbing and there was no forensic evidence connecting Ms Holden to the attack.

Ms Holden was convicted of murder by a majority verdict on 8th March 2012 and sentenced the same day to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 18 years.

She appealed against her conviction but the appeal was dismissed in June 2013. In September 2013 she applied to the CCRC for a review of her case.

Following review, the CCRC concluded that new evidence – an admission to the murder made by a different individual – was potentially credible and raised a real possibility the Court of Appeal would find Ms Holden’s conviction unsafe.

The CCRC referred the conviction in March 2016.

The Court of Appeal upheld the conviction in January 2017.