Eddie Gilfoyle talks to Heart

By Andy Downton

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A wirral man who was jailed 19 year ago for murdering his wife has been telling Heart he's disgusted to find out that his wifes diaries weren't handed over as evidence by police.

It's been claimed that Police sat on evidence for at least 17 years that could have potentially helped free a man convicted of murdering his wife in Merseyside.

Eddie Gilfoyle was jailed in 1993 for killing his wife Paula, who was founded hanged eight months pregnant in the garage of their home.

Mr Gilfoyle, 50, served 18 years in jail and was released in December 2010 on parole having lost two appeals in 1995 and 2000.

On Friday it emerged that police were in possession of two of Mrs Gilfoyle's personal diaries - which provide insight into her personality - for at least 17 years.

However, it is not known whether the diaries, locked away in a metal box in the family home in Upton, Wirral, were found during the original investigation or in 1994 when Lancashire Police reviewed the murder investigation.

The diaries were handed over to Mr Gilfoyle's legal team in August 2010 by Merseyside Police. His trial was told his wife would not have committed suicide and she was happy and bubbly despite a suicide note written in her hand.

A spokesman for the Criminal Cases Review Commission confirmed it launched an investigation of the new material in February 2011 but was unable to specify how long it would take to report.

A Merseyside Police spokesman said: ``It would be inappropriate to comment on this case which is currently under review by the Criminal Cases Review Commission.''