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Daisy Angus

 

Charge:

Drug Related (Possession or sale)

Sentence:

10 years

Years Imprisoned:

4.5

Year Crime:

2002

Year Convicted:

2006

Year Cleared:

2007

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

India

County or Region of Crime:

Maharashtra

City of Crime:

Mumbai

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

"Daisy Angus was wrongly convicted in June 2006 of smuggling drugs in November 2002. When arrested at the airport for a flight to Berlin, she claimed that the 10 kilograms of hashish customs officers found was in the bag of an Israeli acquaintance -- which he denied. She was jailed from her November 21, 2002 arrest until her trial and conviction of three drug charges. Daisy Angus was sentenced to 10 years "rough imprisonment." Daisy Angus turned down an opportunity to transfer to a prison in England, so she could stay in India and fight her conviction. After 4-1/2 years of imprisonment Daisy Angus' conviction was quashed by the Bombay High Court in April 2007, and she was released. "

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Daisy Angus' conviction was quashed by the Bombay High Court in April 2007.

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

22

Age When Released:

26

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"How backpacker cleared her name, By Martin Beckford, TheTelegraph (London UK), April 10, 2007"

Information Location 1:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/10/wdaisy10.xml

Information Source 2:

"It took 5 years to justice - hc rules daisy was erroneously sentenced to 10 yrs’, By Mayura Janwalkar, Daily News and Analysis (Mumbai, India), April 6, 2007"

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http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1089244

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