Pinfold and MacKenney unsuccessfully appealed against their convictions in 1981 and were denied leave to appeal in 1987 [REF].
Harry MacKenney's former wife Eileen said in her autobiography, published by Simon and Schuster in 2011, that Childs' story about the murders was false, and he was really from Wales and called Martin Jones; he had taken the name Childs from a previous tenant of his flat [REF].