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| There are many names inscribed in the hall of judicial infamy. These are but a few of the many miscarriages of justice that have taken place in Great Britain. Fresh names will - all too inevitably - be added in the course of time. |
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22-year wait for redemption |
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Spent nine years in prison as a consequence of wrongdoing by police officers |
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Served 14 years before convictions overturned |
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Served 7 years before charges formally dropped following re-trial |
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Served nearly 2 years before convictions quashed |
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Incarcerated for thirteen and a half years before conviction declared unsafe |
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Hanged in 1950 |
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Both served around twenty-five years before being released and later saw their convictions quashed |
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Both men served 10 years in prison before being released; sadly neither lived to see his name cleared. |
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Spent 16 years in prison for a crime the court of appeal admitted he could not have committed. |
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Conviction quashed after 3 years in jail. |
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Conviction quashed after 7 years in jail. |
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The two men spent three years in prison after being convicted of sexual abuse - crimes it later transpired had never happened. |
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Spent 18 months in prison. Found guilty of committing a gay sex attack although he (a hererosexual) had been attacked at knifepoint by his supposed victim. |
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Conviction quashed after 25 years in jail. |
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Conviction quashed after 26 years in jail. |
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Conviction quashed on appeal. |
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Conviction quashed after serving 11 years and 9 years after his release on licence. |
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Convictions quashed after ten years. |
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Spent 27 years (!) in prison before his conviction was finally quashed. |
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Conviction quashed three years after false rape accusations. |
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Conviction quashed by the law lords after 15 years. |
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Conviction quashed after student lawyers took up his case. |
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Conviction quashed by the Scottish court of appeal after he had served six years. |
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Aged 17 when convicted, Joseph Otoo served three years of a 7-year sentence before his conviction was quashed. |
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Cleared by the Court of Appeal 5 years into a ten-year sentence for armed robbery after being convicted on the basis of evidence planted by corrupt police officers. |
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Cleared by the Court of Appeal after spending one and a half years in prison. |
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Cleared by the Court of Appeal 13 years after serving 28 months of a 4-year sentence. |
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Two years for "rape". |
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Convictions quashed following "sensationalist" reporting. |
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Served two years in prison after having a gun "planted" on them by corrupt police officers. |
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Cleared by the Court of Appeal almost 10 years after being convicted of sex offences. |
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Philip English, whose conviction for the murder of Sergeant Bill Forth in Gateshead was later overturned by the Court of Appeal. Mr English was 100 yards away in handcuffs when a police officer was stabbed by Paul Weddle, but he was sentenced to life imprisonment under the law of 'joint enterprise'. |
Cleared after serving 16 years for murder |
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