John Paul Grecian

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Charge:	Arms Sales
Sentence:	Suspended prison sentence
Years Imprisoned:
Year Crime:
Year Convicted:	1992
Year Cleared:	1995
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
City of Crime:
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"John Paul Grecian, Bryan Mason, Stuart Blackledge and Colin Phillips were codefendants wrongly convicted in February 1992 in London of illegal arms sales to Iraq. The four businessmen pled guilty, and were given a suspended prison sentence. The convictions of Grecian, Mason, Blackledge, Phillips were overturned in October 1995 by England's Court of Appeals after it was learned that the British government knew about the arns sales in advance and did nothing to prevent them. It was reported on June 8, 1996 in the Independent (London) that at the times of the arms sales Grecian was working as an informant for the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency. In May 1996 Grecian announced he was seeking compensation from the British government for his wrongful conviction. In November 2010 the British government announced that Grecian and another businessman acquitted of engaging in business dealings and who provided information to the British government about Iraq's nuclear weapons program in the 1990s, were awarded a total of £1m pounds."
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Innocence Proved By:	"The convictions of Grecian, Mason, Blackledge, Phillips were overturned in October 1995 by England's Court of Appeals after it was learned that the British government knew about the arns sales in advance and did nothing to prevent them."
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Compensation Awarded:	"£500,000 pounds (Nov. 2010)"
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Innocent arms firm chief still imprisoned by his past, By David Hellier, Independent (London), February 15, 1996"
Information Location 1:	http://www.independent.co.uk/news/innocent-arms-firm-chief-still-imprisoned-by-his-past-1319231.html
Information Source 2:	"Businessmen win £1m in belated arms-to-Iraq payouts, By Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian (London, UK), November 20, 2010"
Information Location 2:	http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/20/businessmen-arms-to-iraq-payouts
Information Source 3:	"Arms-to-Iraq trial dealer `is CIA man', By Mark Watts (Staff), Independent (London), June 8, 1996"
Information Location 3:	http://www.independent.co.uk/news/arms-to-iraq-trial-dealer-is-cia-man-1336127.html
Information Source 4:	"Grecian seeking compensation over his arms-to-Iraq ordeal, By Chris Blackhurst (Staff), Independent (London), May 8, 1996"
Information Location 4:	http://www.independent.co.uk/news/grecian-seeking-compensation-over-his-arms-to-iraq-ordeal-1346280.html
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John Paul Grecian

Charge:

Arms Sales

Sentence:

Suspended prison sentence

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1992

Year Cleared:

1995

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"The convictions of Grecian, Mason, Blackledge, Phillips were overturned in October 1995 by England's Court of Appeals after it was learned that the British government knew about the arns sales in advance and did nothing to prevent them."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"£500,000 pounds (Nov. 2010)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"Innocent arms firm chief still imprisoned by his past, By David Hellier, Independent (London), February 15, 1996"

Information Location 1:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/innocent-arms-firm-chief-still-imprisoned-by-his-past-1319231.html

Information Source 2:

"Businessmen win £1m in belated arms-to-Iraq payouts, By Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian (London, UK), November 20, 2010"

Information Location 2:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/20/businessmen-arms-to-iraq-payouts

Information Source 3:

"Arms-to-Iraq trial dealer `is CIA man', By Mark Watts (Staff), Independent (London), June 8, 1996"

Information Location 3:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/arms-to-iraq-trial-dealer-is-cia-man-1336127.html

Information Source 4:

"Grecian seeking compensation over his arms-to-Iraq ordeal, By Chris Blackhurst (Staff), Independent (London), May 8, 1996"

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/grecian-seeking-compensation-over-his-arms-to-iraq-ordeal-1346280.html

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