High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The murder of Teresa de Simone was committed in Southampton, England, in 1979 and led to one of the longest proven cases of a miscarriage of justice in British legal history. The murder occurred outside the Tom Tackle pub and was the subject of a three-year police investigation which resulted in the arrest of Sean Hodgson. Over the course of his 15-day trial it was revealed that Hodgson was a pathological liar and had confessed to numerous crimes, including crimes that he could not have committed and crimes that did not appear to have happened. Hodgson was convicted of the murder by a unanimous jury verdict in 1982 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. After serving 27 years in prison he was exonerated and released in March 2009. DNA analysis of semen samples which had been preserved from the original crime scene showed that they could not have come from him.