Wrongly jailed Victor Nealon spends first night as free man on streets

Victor Nealon, the former postman who was wrongly imprisoned for nearly 17 years, spent his first night of freedom on the streets after being discharged from Wakefield prison on Friday with £46 and nowhere to stay.
Nealon was given a discretionary life sentence in January 1997 for the attempted rape of a woman leaving a nightclub. But when DNA evidence was finally examined on the urging of appeal lawyers, it pointed to another unknown man as the perpetrator.
Nealon, 53, originally from Dublin and living in Redditch in the West Midlands when he was jailed, told the Guardian he hoped the police would reopen inquiries into the sexual assault for which he was wrongly convicted.