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Background on a number of the a whole bunch of wrongful convictions within the UK through the years
Firstly, in case you are somebody who was or is wrongly convicted (or a member of the family thereof) and your case just isn’t talked about on this weblog submit, I apologise. It will have been unimaginable to write down about all of the a whole bunch of wrongful convictions (and I’ll not find out about all circumstances of suspected wrongful conviction). If you want your case to be included on this submit please electronic mail me on [email protected].
This weblog submit is extra for reference than it’s an article (I shall be writing a correct article quickly about miscarriages and what the long run path for Lucy is likely to be based mostly on different circumstances). Nevertheless, in the event you learn via the circumstances it’s best to get a way of how large an issue wrongful conviction is and has been on this nation. You may additionally get a way that though we’re good at banging folks up who’re harmless, we do (finally) exonerate many or even perhaps most of them. This latter course of nevertheless it appears may do with bettering (many/most just isn’t adequate) and dashing up, and clearly there are poor practices that result in folks being wrongfully accused or convicted within the first place.
One fabulous useful resource I got here throughout is The Miscarriages of Justice Registry on the College of Exeter. The registry is “an interdisciplinary analysis group specialising in behavioural and knowledge science analysis, and making use of this analysis to the authorized system and in authorized arguments.” It comprises particulars of over 300 individuals who have been acquitted following profitable appeals and will be discovered right here: https://evidencebasedjustice.exeter.ac.uk/miscarriages-of-justice-registry/the-cases/case-search/.
Along with the database, it has many different nice assets. The 4 “points wikis” beneath are significantly fascinating.
Difficulty Wiki: False confession
Difficulty Wiki: Witness proof
https://evidencebasedjustice.exeter.ac.uk/miscarriages-of-justice-registry/the-issues/eyewitness-id/
Difficulty Wiki: Disclosure
Difficulty Wiki: Forensic proof
Precise wrongful convictions/accusations (notable)
Sally Clark
“Clark was convicted in November 1999. The convictions have been upheld on enchantment in October 2000, however overturned in a second enchantment in January 2003, after it emerged that Alan Williams, the prosecution forensic pathologist who examined each infants, had didn’t disclose microbiological studies that instructed the second of her sons had died of pure causes.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Clark)
Additionally: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/information/greater-manchester-news/sally-clark-child-death-case-1111844
Donna Anthony
“Following the overturning of Angela Cannings’s conviction, twenty-eight circumstances, together with that of Donna Anthony, have been referred to the Prison Instances Evaluation Fee (CCRC), and Anthony was freed in April 2005.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Anthony)
Additionally: http://information.bbc.co.uk/1/hello/england/somerset/4431851.stm
Victor Nealon
“The wrongful imprisonment of Victor Nealon occurred in 1996 when the British postman Victor Nealon was mistakenly convicted of tried rape. He was launched in 2013 after spending 17 years in jail, 10 years greater than his advisable tariff, as a result of he continued to protest his innocence.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Nealon)
Siôn Jenkins
“Billie-Jo Margaret Jenkins (29 March 1983 – 15 February 1997) was an English lady who was murdered in Hastings, East Sussex in February 1997. The case gained widespread media consideration and stays unsolved. Her foster father, Siôn Jenkins, was initially convicted for the crime, however after two retrials by which the jury was unable to succeed in a verdict he was formally acquitted. He has been denied compensation on the grounds that there isn’t a proof to show his innocence.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Billie-Jo_Jenkins)
Angela Cannings
“Angela Cannings was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment within the UK in 2002 for the homicide of her seven-week-old son, Jason, who died in 1991, and of her 18-week-old son Matthew, who died in 1999. Her first baby, Gemma, died of Sudden Toddler Dying Syndrome (SIDS) in 1989 on the age of 13 weeks, though she was by no means charged in reference to Gemma’s loss of life. Her conviction was based mostly on claims that she had smothered the kids, however was overturned as unsafe by the Courtroom of Enchantment on 10 December 2003. Cannings was convicted after the involvement in her case of Professor Sir Roy Meadow, a paediatrician who was later struck off, then reinstated, by the Normal Medical Council.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Cannings)
John Corcoran
“Just a few days after Gorrie’s homicide, unemployed 21-year-old John Anthony Mark Corcoran of Warren Park, Havant, was questioned in regards to the homicide….Corcoran, of Plumley Stroll in Havant, was tried and located responsible of Gorrie’s homicide in December 1999….In January 2003, Corcoran had his conviction for the homicide overturned on enchantment. The grounds have been that the decide had misdirected the jury in his summing up.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Helen_Gorrie)
An unknown or unpublished variety of sub-postmasters
“The British Publish Workplace scandal is a miscarriage of justice involving the wrongful civil and legal prosecutions of an unknown or unpublished variety of sub-postmasters (SPMs) for theft, false accounting and/or fraud. The circumstances represent probably the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British authorized historical past, spanning a interval of over twenty years; elements of the scandal stay unresolved.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal)
Barry George
“Barry Michael George (born 15 April 1960) is an Englishman who was discovered responsible of the homicide of English tv presenter Jill Dando and whose conviction was overturned on enchantment.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_George)
Sam Hallam
“Sam Hallam (born 1987), from Hoxton, London, is likely one of the youngest victims of a UK miscarriage of justice after an enchantment courtroom quashed his homicide conviction in 2012.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hallam)
Ched Evans
“R v Evans and McDonald was the prosecution of two footballers, Ched Evans and Clayton McDonald, who have been accused of the rape of a girl. On 20 April 2012, Evans was convicted and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment. McDonald was acquitted. A number of folks have been later fined after naming the lady on Twitter and different social media web sites.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Evans_and_McDonald)
Additionally: https://www.bbc.co.uk/information/uk-wales-36099522
Andrew Malkinson
“Andrew Malkinson (born 23 January 1966) is a British man who was wrongfully convicted and jailed in 2003 for the rape of a 33-year-old lady in Salford, Larger Manchester…Malkinson made one other software to the CCRC in 2021, and, in 2022, a person was arrested in reference to the unique crime. The CCRC referred the case for enchantment, and the conviction was quashed by the Courtroom of Enchantment in July 2023, utilizing proof from the 2007 re-testing of samples, which recognized a person who had subsequently been positioned within the Nationwide DNA Database.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_conviction_of_Andrew_Malkinson)
Barri White and Keith Hyatt
“Barri White and Keith Hyatt have been jailed in 2002 [for the murder of Rachel Manning] and had their convictions quashed in 2007.” (from https://www.bbc.co.uk/information/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-24284921)
John Kamara
“John Kamara was convicted of the brutal 1981 homicide of betting store supervisor John Suffield, who was tied to a chair and stabbed 19 occasions in a botched theft on Lodge Lane, Toxteth. Nevertheless in 2001, he was freed by the Courtroom of Enchantment after the conviction was declared unsafe.” (from https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/information/liverpool-news/innocent-man-imprisoned-20-years-27505577)
Patryk Pachecka and Grzegorz Szal
“Patryk Pachecka and Grzegorz Szal, have been unanimously acquitted of Homicide and Manslaughter after a trial on the Central Prison Courtroom…Each males have been convicted of Homicide in December 2017 and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimal time period of 18 years, whereas the killer escaped accountability. Their convictions have been overturned in January 2021.” (from https://www.libertaschambers.com/media-hub/murder-conviction-quashed-for-patrtk-pachecka/ )
Trupti Patel (wrongly accused/acquitted)
“Trupti Patel is a professional pharmacist from Maidenhead in Berkshire, England, who was acquitted in 2003 of murdering three of her youngsters, Amar (5 September 1997 – 10 December 1997), Jamie (21 June 1999 – 6 July 1999), and Mia (14 Might 2001 – 5 June 2001).” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trupti_Patel)
Different notable
Suzanne Holdsworth
Winston Silcott
Judith Ward
Derek Bentley
Stephen Downing
Stefan Kiszko
(from https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/mar/18/miscarriages-justice-history)
The Bridgewater 4
The Birmingham Six
The Stockwell Six
The Guildford 4 and Maguire Seven
Suspected wrongful convictions in UK (those that stay incarcerated)
Colin Norris
“Colin was a nurse in Leeds when a non-diabetic affected person fell right into a hypoglycaemic coma. As one of many workers on responsibility that evening, Colin was questioned and finally convicted on 4 counts of homicide and certainly one of tried homicide, of aged hospital sufferers. Inside Justice first turned concerned with this case when the extremely skilled investigative journalist Bob Woffinden introduced Colin to the eye of our Advisory Panel. His case has been with the CCRC since 2011. In collaboration with the BBC, a documentary was made which you’ll view right here BBC Panorama: The Harmless Serial Killer. You may as well take heed to a Radio Leeds interview with Paul Might.” (from https://www.insidejustice.co.uk/about-us/our-cases.php)
Additionally: https://www.theguardian.com/legislation/2021/feb/12/colin-norris-serial-killer-nurse-conviction-court-of-appeal
Roger Kearney
“Roger was convicted of murdering his lover Paula Poolton after her physique was discovered within the boot of her automobile in 2010. The prosecution described a excessive degree of interplay between sufferer and attacker but no forensic proof was discovered to incriminate Roger. In 2016 the Advisory Panel of Inside Justice, investigating Roger’s case, was filmed by the BBC,. The ensuing two-part documentary Conviction: Homicide on the Station will be seen right here and right here. As we speak, leading edge forensic methods could possibly be used to determine the killer on this case however Hampshire Constabulary has misplaced, destroyed and contaminated key displays opposite to statutory steering. Doing so has denied Roger Kearney the possibility to show his innocence.
CCTV footage, which nonetheless exists, could possibly be subjected to new evaluation which may kind the premise of a brand new enchantment however Hampshire Constabulary has repeatedly refused Inside Justice entry to this materials.” (from https://www.insidejustice.co.uk/about-us/our-cases.php)
Kevin Nunn
“Kevin was convicted of the homicide of his girlfriend Daybreak Walker in 2006 and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimal tariff of twenty-two years. Though the crime scene was wealthy in forensic alternative, nothing implicated Kevin. He maintains his innocence and has taken his case to the Courtroom of Enchantment, the Excessive Courtroom, the Supreme Courtroom and the CCRC. Kevin got here to us in 2014 for assist in the ultimate lead-up to the Supreme Courtroom. Efforts to steer the CCRC to complete the forensic investigation of Kevin’s case proceed and Inside Justice is working with others to develop a nationwide protocol for post-conviction disclosure of proof. This, within the pursuits of justice, is significant.” (from https://www.insidejustice.co.uk/about-us/our-cases.php)
David Reece
“Convicted by a 10-2 majority in March 2018 as a part of a conspiracy to import and provide Class A medicine, David Reece has constantly maintained his innocence….We have now made a quick movie about David’s day in courtroom. Our perception stays agency that there’s something wholly unsuitable with David’s conviction and we should now do the whole lot we presumably can, with all of the experience Inside Justice has, to search out that one factor that might get us again to the Courtroom of Enchantment, however we’d like your assist.” (from https://www.insidejustice.co.uk/about-us/our-cases.php)
Additionally: Learn the Judgment handed down by the Courtroom of Enchantment (Prison Division) and Inside Time article, February third 2020
Michael Stone
“Michael Stone (born Michael John Goodban in 1960) is a British man who was convicted of the 1996 murders of Lin and Megan Russell and the tried homicide of Josie Russell, and who’s a suspected serial killer. He was sentenced to a few life sentences with a tariff of 25 years for the Russell killings. Stone maintains his innocence and continues to contest his conviction. His authorized workforce argues that the serial killer Levi Bellfield may presumably be the true perpetrator of the assault.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stone_(legal))
Additionally: https://www.bbc.co.uk/information/uk-wales-42144445
Ben Geen
“Contemporary proof has emerged that it’s claimed undermines the conviction of a nurse jailed for all times 17 years in the past for murdering two of his sufferers and poisoning 15 others. Benjamin Geen, then 25, was given a minimal 30-year sentence in 2006 largely on the premise that he had been on shift on the time of an “uncommon” variety of circumstances of respiratory arrest within the emergency ward of Horton normal hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire.” (from https://www.theguardian.com/legislation/2023/jul/31/new-evidence-claimed-to-undermine-nurse-benjamin-geen-conviction-for-killing-patients)
Additionally: https://bengeen.wordpress.com
Omar Benguit
“On Friday 12 July 2002, at round 2:50 am, 26-year-old Jong-Okay Shin was murdered on Malmesbury Park Street, Richmond Park, Bournemouth…Omar Benguit was arrested on 22 August, nearly six weeks after the homicide, after being named because the killer by a police informant. Beverly Brown, a heroin addict and prostitute, claimed that she was with Benguit and two different male heroin addicts on the evening of the homicide…It was additionally argued by the defence that an Italian man, Danilo Restivo, convicted of two different murders who was dwelling within the space on the time, was a extra seemingly suspect for the crime. It was instructed that the homicide of Shin resembled similarities between Restivo’s different murders.” (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jong-Ok_Shin)
Additionally: http://www.omarbenguit.co.uk
Matthew Hamlen
“Justice in Jeopardy: The Matthew Hamlen Case – A six half sequence analyzing the Double Jeopardy conviction of Matthew Hamlen for the homicide of Mrs Georgina Edmonds. A homicide investigation that received it badly unsuitable not as soon as, however twice. Severely flawed forensics, deliberate non disclosure to the defence, different suspects ignored … a litany of failures that culminated within the conviction of an harmless man.” (from https://hello.participant.fm/sequence/justice-in-jeopardy-the-matthew-hamlen-case)
Lucy Letby
“Colleagues of killer nurse Lucy Letby proceed to insist that she is harmless – even after the child assassin was jailed for all times earlier this week. Nurses who labored alongside Letby, 33, on the Countess of Chester hospital and stay there now are reportedly struggling to just accept that she murdered seven infants and tried to kill one other six. (from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/information/article-12440411/Nursing-colleagues-Lucy-Letby-insist-innocent-working-hospitals-baby-unit.html)
Additionally: https://www.mirror.co.uk/information/uk-news/lucy-letbys-friend-explains-convinced-30776086 and https://www.chimpinvestor.com/submit/do-statistics-prove-accused-nurse-lucy-letby-innocent and https://rexvlucyletby2023.com and https://www.scienceontrial.com
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