Angela Gay

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Charge:	Manslaughter
Sentence:	5 years
Years Imprisoned:	1.33
Year Crime:	2002
Year Convicted:	2005
Year Cleared:	2007
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Angela Gay was co-defendant of her husband, Ian Gay. Both were wrongly convicted in 2005 of killing their 3-year-old adopted son, based on expert prosecution testimony that he died from salt poisoning, based on expert te. After spending 15 months in prison their convictions were quashed by England's Court of Appeals based on new medical evidence. They were both acquitted in March 2007 after a retrial."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous expert testimony that their adopted son's cause of death was salt poisoning.
Innocence Proved By:	Their convictions were quashed by England's Court of Appeals based on new medical evidence. They were both acquitted in March 2007 after a retrial.
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Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Ian and Angela Gay not guilty of toddler's manslaughter, The Crown Prosecution Service, Press Release, March 2, 2007"
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Angela Gay

Charge:

Manslaughter

Sentence:

5 years

Years Imprisoned:

1.33

Year Crime:

2002

Year Convicted:

2005

Year Cleared:

2007

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

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Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous expert testimony that their adopted son's cause of death was salt poisoning.

Innocence Proved By:

Their convictions were quashed by England's Court of Appeals based on new medical evidence. They were both acquitted in March 2007 after a retrial.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"Ian and Angela Gay not guilty of toddler's manslaughter, The Crown Prosecution Service, Press Release, March 2, 2007"

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http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/pressreleases/115_07.html

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