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They were exonerated more than a decade later through DNA evidence and a confession from the true assailant.

He said some details of Norris' confession had been inconsistent, including different accounts of the number of punches thrown and whether or not he had kicked Stephen.

It was January 2017 before the Libyan authorities provided a copy of the alleged confession to Scottish investigators, who in turn gave it to the Americans.

Thursday's search happened in Balgownie, on a small pocket of woodland mentioned in a confession made by a teenage boy.

Ekkalak had initially been handed the death penalty, but that was commuted to life imprisonment because of his confession to the killing, the court said on Friday.