Iain Hay Gordon was found guilty but insane over the murder Patricia Curran in 1952.
A man wrongly convicted of one of Northern Ireland 's most notorious murders wrote directly to former prime minister Harold Wilson in 1969 appealing for his name to be cleared in the interests of "basic human justice".
She was a student at Queen's University in Belfast, and the daughter of Sir Lancelot Curran, then a High Court judge who later became the Lord Chief Justice in Northern Ireland.He spent seven years in hospital before he was released. He campaigned for his name to be cleared, claiming police had forced him to confess.
He added: "I was released in August 1960 and since then, supported by my family and friends, I have been seeking a re-examination into this case. It states: "The only undisputed fact in this case is that Patricia Curran was stabbed to death 37 times sometime between 5.20pm on the 12th November 1952 when she was seen getting off a bus at Whiteabbey and 2am the following morning when her body was found in the grounds of her home.
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