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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
"Theft (including swindling/fraud, deception and grand larceny)" |
Sentence: |
18 months |
Years Imprisoned: |
0.75 |
Year Crime: |
1994 |
Year Convicted: |
1996 |
Year Cleared: |
2007 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
United Kingdom |
County or Region of Crime: |
England |
City of Crime: |
Cleveland |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"Sultan Alam was wrongly convicted in 1996 of conspiracy to steal motor vehicle parts. Alam, a policeman with the Cleveland Police, a regional force in northeast England, claimed he was the target of a police conspiracy to frame him because he filed a racial discrimination case against the police force in 1993, a year before he was arrested and charged on the conspiracy/theft charges. Alam was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He was imprisoned for 9 months before his release on parole. In November 2007 the U.K.'s Court of Appeal quashed Alam's conviction as unsafe based on new evidence that the police investigating the case had deliberately concealed exculpatory evidence from the prosecutors and Alam's lawyers. Alam, at 49, was awarded compensation of £841,000 pounds on April 15, 2012, after the Cleveland Police admitted he had been maliciously prosecuted. The award is the equivalent of $1,330,546 at the exchange rate on 4-15-2012." |
Conviction Caused By: |
Police misconduct by concealment of exculpatory evidence from the prosecutors and Alam's trial lawyers. |
Innocence Proved By: |
In November 2007 the U.K.'s Court of Appeal quashed Alam's conviction as unsafe based on new evidence that the police investigating the case had deliberately concealed exculpatory evidence from the prosecutors and Alam's lawyers. |
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Compensation Awarded: |
"£841,000 pounds (April 2012) (US$1,330,546 at exchange rate on 4-15-2012)" |
Was Perpetrator Identified? |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
34 |
Age When Released: |
35 |
Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
Asian |
Information Source 1: |
"Police officer conviction quashed, BBC News, November 19, 2007" |
Information Location 1: |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7102169.stm |
Information Source 2: |
"Asian policeman who lost wife after he was jailed for crime he didn't commit gets £850,000 compensation after being framed by 'racist' colleagues, By Leon Watson (staff), The Daily Mail (London), 4-16-2012" |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2130597/Asian-policeman-jailed-crime-didnt-commit-gets-850-000-compensation-framed-racist-colleagues.html?ito=feeds-newsxml |
Information Source 3: |
"Former police officer wins £840,000 compensation after ‘stitch-up’, By Helen Carter (staff), The Guardian (London), April 16, 2012" |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/16/ex-police-officer-compensation-stitched-up |
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