Almost 40 years after two Swedish backpackers disappeared, David Tamihere has had his convictions quashed. A journalist calls it 'another example of how slowly and painfully the system works when it sometimes might have got it wrong'.

David Tamihere's murder convictions have been quashed, after nearly four decades, re-opening wounds and calling into question whether justice has actually been served

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