"His legal team at the time said the jury had failed to take sufficient account of the fact that, two months before Weinmann was killed, his family home was spray-painted with the words 'KKK House', a reference to the Ku Klux Klan.

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It was suggested that this was because the Weinmanns, who had many black neighbours, had been flying the Confederate flag, seen by many as a symbol of white supremacy.

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However, the appeal court concluded that 'it was never established that the victim himself was the target, as opposed to one of his family' and that there was no proof that anyone else had a motive to kill Edward Weinmann.

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Denham’s lawyer Jennifer Sheetz is astonished by that decision.

‘The victim's reputation as a racist and the displaying of the Confederate flag in his front window… was another really important factor that was suppressed by the police and prosecutor.’