A police force has wasted 18 months reexamining a murder case which collapsed due to their own failings. Now Staffordshire Police has discovered the CPS can't press charges because of its previous blunders.
The force launched a re-investigation into the death of Kevin Nunes after their botched enquiry led to the murder convictions of five men being quashed.
The promising 20-year-old footballer, who had been on the books of Tottenham Hotspur, was found dead in a country lane in Pattingham, Staffordshire, on September 19, 2002.
He had been savagely beaten and shot five times in the "execution-style" gangland murder. Five suspects were jailed for a total of 135 years.
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