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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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7 |
Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment |
Year Convicted: |
1998 |
Year
Cleared:
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2005 |
Location
of Trial:
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United Kingdom |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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"Wrongly convicted in 1998 of murdering two of her children by smothering them. Donna Anthony's 11-month-old daughter Jordan died in February 1996 and 4-month-old son Michael died 13 months later in March 1997. The jury relied on the prosecution's expert witness - Sir Roy Meadows, who is the same "expert" prosecutors relied on to obtain the convictions of Sally Clark, Angela Cannings and Trupti Patel, all of who were wrongly convicted in the United Kingdom of murdering their children who actually died of natural causes." |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Erroneous expert testimony |
Innocence
Proved By:
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"UK's Court of Appeals quashed conviction on April 11, 2005."
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Defendant
Aided By:
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Compensation Awarded: |
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Was Perpetrator Found? |
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Age
When Imprisoned:
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24 |
Age
When Released:
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31 |
Information Source 1: |
"Mothers murder convictions quashed, Staff and Agencies, The Guardian, April 11, 2005" |
Information
Location 1:
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"http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,,1457161,00.html" |
Information
Source 2:
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"Mother Freed After Seven Years In Jail For Child Killings, Clare Dyer (Legal Editor), The Guardian (UK), April 12, 2005" |
Information
Location 2:
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"http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1457464,00.html" |
Information
Source 3:
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"The Most Bullied Woman in Prison, Robert Stansfield (staff), The Mirror,(UK), April 16, 2005" |
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Location 3:
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=15404247&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=the-most-bullied-woman-in-prison-name_page.html |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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White |
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