Kathleen Bailey

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Charge:	Conspiracy to cause grevious bodily harm
Sentence:	2 years suspended
Years Imprisoned:
Year Crime:	1974
Year Convicted:	1977
Year Cleared:	2002
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
City of Crime:	Hertfordshire
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Kathleen Bailey was codefendant of Reginald Dudley, Robert Maynard and Charles Clarke. Dudley was convicted in 1977 of conspiracy related to the 1974 murder of Michael "Micky" Cornwall that Reginald and Maynard were wrongly convicted of committing. Bailey was convicted of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm to Cornwall and given a suspended two year prison sentence. She served no time in prison. The Criminal Case Review Commission referred their case to the Court of Appeals on June 21, 2000. The convictions of the four were quashed by the Court of Appeal on July 17, 2002."
Conviction Caused By:	"Police fabricated confessions allegedly made by Reg Dudley and Bob Maynard, and in exchange for a lighter sentence, a jailhouse snitch fabricated an alleged confession by the two men to the two murders."
Innocence Proved By:	"Court of Appeals quashed conviction on July 17, 2002, after referral by the Criminal Cases Review Commission"
Defendant Aided By:	Criminal Case Review Commission
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Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"R. v. Robert Maynard, Reginald Dudley, Kathleen Bailey and Charles Clarke [2002] EWCA Crim 1942"
Information Location 1:	http://netk.net.au/UK/Maynard.asp
Information Source 2:	"Torso Murder Convictions Quashed," Vikram Dodd, Guardian Unlimited, London, July 17, 2002"
Information Location 2:	http://innocent.org.uk/cases/rdudley/
Information Source 3:	"Kathleen Bailey, Criminal Case Review Commission referred cases database (last viewed Feb. 1, 2014)"
Information Location 3:	http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/criminal-cases-review-commission/case-library/2
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Kathleen Bailey

Charge:

Conspiracy to cause grevious bodily harm

Sentence:

2 years suspended

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

1974

Year Convicted:

1977

Year Cleared:

2002

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Hertfordshire

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Police fabricated confessions allegedly made by Reg Dudley and Bob Maynard, and in exchange for a lighter sentence, a jailhouse snitch fabricated an alleged confession by the two men to the two murders."

Innocence Proved By:

"Court of Appeals quashed conviction on July 17, 2002, after referral by the Criminal Cases Review Commission"

Defendant Aided By:

Criminal Case Review Commission

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"R. v. Robert Maynard, Reginald Dudley, Kathleen Bailey and Charles Clarke [2002] EWCA Crim 1942"

Information Location 1:

http://netk.net.au/UK/Maynard.asp

Information Source 2:

"Torso Murder Convictions Quashed," Vikram Dodd, Guardian Unlimited, London, July 17, 2002"

Information Location 2:

http://innocent.org.uk/cases/rdudley/

Information Source 3:

"Kathleen Bailey, Criminal Case Review Commission referred cases database (last viewed Feb. 1, 2014)"

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http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/criminal-cases-review-commission/case-library/2

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