Author QC apologises to murderer

Leading QC Michael Mansfield has been forced to change a section of his memoirs which detail gruesome multiple murders that never happened.

Mr Mansfield, who has worked on inquests into Princess Diana and Jean Charles de Menezes, issued an apology after a convicted murderer complained that his recollections were inaccurate.

John Bowden, serving a life sentence for killing park keeper Donald Ryan, said Mr Mansfield attributed additional crimes to him, describing him as a serial killer. Bowden committed one murder. Mr Mansfield has agreed to change Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer.