Michael Hickey

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	18
Year Crime:	1978
Year Convicted:	1979
Year Cleared:	1997
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
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City of Crime:	Stourbridge
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"One of the Bridgewater Four, who were Michael Hickey, Vincent Hickey, Patrick Malloy and James Robinson. Patrick Malloy's false confession induced and pressured by the police trickery of fabricating a false confession by Vincent Hickey led to the convictions of all four men for the shooting murder of 13-year-old paperboy Carl Bridgewater near Stourbridge, England in 1981. The police crime unit that obtained P. Malloy's false confession was found to have planted evidence and fabricated confessions in at least 23 cases during the 1980s. None of the 10 officers involved in the evidence fabrication were prosecuted."
Conviction Caused By:	"False confession of Patrick Malloy that implicated all four men. The police forged Vincent Hickey's signature on a confession he didn't make, and used that to pressure Malloy to falsely confess to a murder none of the four men had anything to do with."
Innocence Proved By:	"Proof of police misconduct in framing the Bridgewater Four. Police forged Vincent Hickey's signature on a confession he didn't make, and used that to pressure Patrick Malloy to falsely confess."
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Compensation Awarded:	"£990,000"
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	Bridgewater Four Internet story
Information Location 1:	http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/bridgewater4/
Information Source 2:	"Bridgewater two in payout appeal, BBC News, August 10, 2005"
Information Location 2:	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/4137736.stm
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Michael Hickey

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

18

Year Crime:

1978

Year Convicted:

1979

Year Cleared:

1997

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Stourbridge

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"False confession of Patrick Malloy that implicated all four men. The police forged Vincent Hickey's signature on a confession he didn't make, and used that to pressure Malloy to falsely confess to a murder none of the four men had anything to do with."

Innocence Proved By:

"Proof of police misconduct in framing the Bridgewater Four. Police forged Vincent Hickey's signature on a confession he didn't make, and used that to pressure Patrick Malloy to falsely confess."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"£990,000"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

Bridgewater Four Internet story

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http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/bridgewater4/

Information Source 2:

"Bridgewater two in payout appeal, BBC News, August 10, 2005"

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/4137736.stm

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