He recalled how after his release, one morning in his flat he walked back to his bedroom and sat down on his bed, because he was subconsciously waiting for a prison officer to come and lock him back into his cell.
“You’ve got to be at your door at a certain time, otherwise the officers will go off at you”, he said.
“I was just sitting there thinking, ‘What am I doing?'”
But Mr Sullivan’s optimism is tempered by a longing for answers about how he ended up being charged with an infamous murder that he didn’t commit, and a confusion about why he still has not had an apology.
“I’ve lost everything”, he said.
“I lost all my freedom, I lost my mother since I’ve been in prison, I’ve lost my father.
“It hurts because I wasn’t there for them”, he said.
“I can’t carry on with my life if I can’t get an answer off them.”
“That’s all I want, an apology [and to understand] the reason why they’ve done this to me”, he said.