Quashed conviction after nearly 40 years

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I wonder how many more men are gonna get rape and murder wrongful convictions quashed as a result of new DNA evidence

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/0 ... -released/

I only hope he can manage to rebuild some kind of life for himself after this but I'm not confident that he can

The police often get false confessions out of people who they interview in respect of various crimes that have been committed.

This sort of thing is a topic broached in forensic psychology, where suspects with certain personality types believe they must be guilty because they have been accused by authority figures, even when they have not committed a crime.

Police also sometimes use dirty tricks to get a victim to confess to something they haven't done, usually involving psychology and trickster language.

I'm appalled I am

It's not that long ago that Andy Malkinsons rape conviction was quashed after 20 years of protesting his innocence

It makes you wonder how many more there'll be in the coming years

Do you remember the Coronation Street character Deirdre Barlow being wrongly jailed way back in 1998?

I remember being a kid and thinking how awful it must be to be wrongly jailed and how incompetent adults must be to get something so wrong.

It'd do your head in for certain

I think I'd have to hatch a plan to escape if it was me and I thought I wasn't going to get a chance

These guys must have tremendous inner strength for what they've had to go through

I don't get how it's taken so long for the DNA to come through

Yeah, the injustice of it all is horrifying.

Imagine being locked in prison (probably on the nonce wing) for nearly 40 years being called a murdering rapist every day of your life and you can't even get away from it but you're completely innocent

I can't think of a word that can adequately do that justice

^ Yeah, it is truly awful. My heart goes out to people who have lived through that.

And that's British justice for you