A pensioner who spent 37 years in prison after being wrongly convicted
of murdering a mother and daughter has been released from jail.Joseph
Sledge, 70, was jailed in 1976 for murdering Josephine Davis, 74, and
daughter Aileen, 57, in North Carolina US.However, almost four decades
after he was locked up, the pensioner was released after new DNA
evidence came to light.As reported by Sky News, Mr Sledge said he was most looking forward to going home and "relaxing and sleeping in a real bed".
He also said he knew he would be freed from prison.
"I had confidence in my own self," he said. "Patience is the word."
Mr Sledge was arrested and convicted in 1976 after Mrs Davis and her daughter were found dead in their home in Elizabethtown.
Their bodies were found one day after Mr Sledge escaped from a prison work farm.
The pensioner is the third prisoner in less than six months to be freed in North Carolina after being wrongly convicted.
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