Mark Braithwaite

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	4
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Year Convicted:	1987
Year Cleared:	1991
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
City of Crime:	Tottenham
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Mark Braithwaite was a codefendant of Winston Silcott and Engin Raghip. The three men were wrongly convicted of murdering Metropolitan Police Constable Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm riots in Tottenham, north of London in 1985. England's Court of Appeals quashed the convictions of the three men in 1991 as unsafe because forensic tests cast doubt on the authenticity of detectives' notes from an interview in which Silcott appeared to incriminate himself."
Conviction Caused By:	Police tainted evidence to make him appear Silcott incriminated himself and his two codefendants.
Innocence Proved By:	England's Court of Appeals quashed the convictions of the three men in 1991 as unsafe because forensic tests cast doubt on the authenticity of detectives' notes from an interview in which Silcott appeared to incriminate himself.
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Age When Imprisoned:	18
Age When Released:	22
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Fresh Search For Blakelock Killers, Rosie Cowan, The Guardian, London UK, September 29, 2004"
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Mark Braithwaite

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

4

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1987

Year Cleared:

1991

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Tottenham

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Police tainted evidence to make him appear Silcott incriminated himself and his two codefendants.

Innocence Proved By:

England's Court of Appeals quashed the convictions of the three men in 1991 as unsafe because forensic tests cast doubt on the authenticity of detectives' notes from an interview in which Silcott appeared to incriminate himself.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

18

Age When Released:

22

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

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"Fresh Search For Blakelock Killers, Rosie Cowan, The Guardian, London UK, September 29, 2004"

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"http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1314998,00.html"

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