Fifty-three-year-old Carol Fisher and her sixty-year-old husband Graham owned a service station near Wadebridge, in Cornwall, England.
On November 5th, 2003, two men entered their establishment and attacked the couple, who were shot with a sawn-off shotgun and repeatedly bludgeoned with sledgehammers.
In January 2006, two brothers—Robert and Lee Firkins—were convicted of the crime and sentenced to twenty-six years to life. The brothers vehemently denied their guilt. The verdict hinged almost entirely on the testimony of a jailhouse informant known only as Witness Z, who after the double murder was featured on Crimewatch, told police he’d heard one of the brothers confessing to the slaying.
However, in 2023, the Court of Appeal found that this witness was possibly unreliable, as he suffered from a mental disorder. A retrial for the Firkins brothers was scheduled for January of 2024, but before that could occur, the conviction was overturned. Robert was released almost immediately after having spent nearly two decades in prison, while Lee’s release is still pending.
Following the brothers’ acquittal, the murder of Carol and Graham Fisher was once again considered an open and unsolved investigation, and authorities have asked anyone with information about the case to come forward.
Crime Immemorial 