Ann Ming overturned the 800-year-old double jeopardy rule that stopped a person being charged twice with the same offence.
It meant William Dunlop, who strangled pizza delivery worker Julie Hogg, 22, in 1989 and hid her body behind a bath panel, thought he had got away with murder when two juries failed to reach a verdict.
Under the new law instigated by Ann, he was finally jailed for life in 2006.
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