Serena Kayretli
Years in prison:
2
Year of crime:
1996
Year conviction was overturned:
2000
Serena Kayretli and her husband Vedat Kayretli, were convicted of manslaughter of Fevsi Demir (a former boyfriend of Serena). Demir’s body was found encased in concrete a significant time after his death. Their convictions were quashed on the basis of problems with the evidence of the Home Office pathologist in the case.
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< Back to Case Search < Back to Overview Graph- Offence: Manslaughter / non-fatal offence against the person
- Jurisdiction: England & Wales
- County: Essex
- Ethnicity: Unknown
- Gender: F
- Years in prison: 2
- Offence convicted of: Manslaughter
- Year of crime: 1996
- Year of initial conviction: 1998
- Year conviction was overturned: 2000
- Age when imprisoned: 20
- CCRC Referral: N
- Tried with others: Y
- Link to full case: Not available
- Type of fresh evidence at appeal: Evidence undermining forensic science
- Compensation: Unknown
- Crown argued case at CofA: Unknown
- Retrial: No
- Previous appeals: Unknown