A MAN who moved to live in Ceredigion after his wrongful conviction for the murder of a pregnant mother was overturned has died.

Eddie Browning spent five-and-a-half years in jail after he was convicted of killing Marie Wilks, 22, near a layby on the M50 in Worcestershire in June 1988.

He was found dead at his home in the Llanfair Clydogau area of Lampeter at around 6pm on Sunday, 13 May.

Ms Wilks, from Worcestershire, was attacked and killed after her car broke down.

She had gone to use an emergency telephone on the motorway, leaving her 13-month-old son and 11-year-old sister in the car.

In 1989, Mr Browning was convicted at Shrewsbury Crown Court of the murder but was released in 1994 after the Court of Appeal decided his conviction was unsafe, because evidence was kept from his trial by the police.

Mr Browning, 63, moved to Ceredigion after he was released on appeal and was awarded compensation for his time spent in prison - reported to be in excess of £600,000.

At a separate court hearing in Aberystwyth charged with an offence of unlawfully carrying an illegal knife in 2005 of which he was cleared, Mr Browning gave his address as living in Ffynon Wen, Llanon.

A Dyfed-Powys Police spokeswoman said that next of kin and HM Coroner have been informed and that “the death is not being treated as suspicious".

No-one has been brought to justice for Ms Wilks’ death despite several reviews.

Detective Chief Inspector Steve Tonks of West Mercia Police said: “This case has been subject to review a number of times since Eddie Browning’s acquittal by the Major Crime Review Unit.

“As recently as two years ago, further forensic work was commissioned, which did not reveal any additional evidence.

“The case remains on our list of unsolved cases that would be subject to periodic reviews.”