A MAN convicted ten years ago of murdering a teenage girl in a nightclub is expected to launch a challenge to his conviction at London's Criminal Appeal Court today.
Stephen Craven, now in his early 30s, is serving a life sentence for killing 19-year-old Penny Laing, on Christmas Eve, 1989.
Miss Laing, a shop assistant, was stabbed in the neck with a broken beer glass at The Studio night club in Newcastle.
The attacker slipped away in the ensuing confusion.
Craven, then an unemployed glazier, was among 1,500 people in the club and later went to casualty to have a finger wound stitched.
The next morning he flew to New York.
He was arrested on returning to the UK three days later
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