Michael Lawson

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Charge:	Child Abuse
Sentence:	7 years
Years Imprisoned:	3
Year Crime:
Year Convicted:	2000
Year Cleared:	2003
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
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City of Crime:
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Michael Lawson was wrongly convicted of child abuse. Worked at the same approved child care school in Merseyside as Basil Williams-Rigby, also wrongly convicted of child abuse and exonerated and released from prison the same day - March 14, 2003. Convicted solely based on the sensationalism of the charges, without any corroborating evidence based on complainants who only came forward after police "trawled" for alleged victims by writing to former residents of his home care business asking if they had complaints."
Conviction Caused By:	Sensationalism of the child abuse charges without any corroborating evidence.
Innocence Proved By:	"Conviction reversed by the Court of Appeal on March 14, 2003."
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Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	59
Age When Released:	62
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Child Abuse Verdicts Unsafe: Ex-carers at boys' home have convictions quashed, Bob Woffinden, The Guardian, London, March 15, 2003"
Information Location 1:	"http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,914532,00.html"
Information Source 2:	"Judges Free Child Abuse Case Pair, Rosie Waterhouse (staff), Telegraph, London, March 15, 2003."
Information Location 2:	http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/15/nabuse15.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/03/15/ixnewstop.html
Information Source 3:	"Families' Anger and Tears Over the Stolen Years, Rosie Waterhouse (staff), Telegraph, London, March 15, 2003"
Information Location 3:	http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$AIRWXB4VHF0F1QFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2003/03/15/nabuse115.xml
Information Source 4:	Jubilation In Court As Care Workers Freed
Information Location 4:	http://www.richardwebster.net/print/xjubilation.htm
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Michael Lawson

Charge:

Child Abuse

Sentence:

7 years

Years Imprisoned:

3

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

2000

Year Cleared:

2003

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Sensationalism of the child abuse charges without any corroborating evidence.

Innocence Proved By:

"Conviction reversed by the Court of Appeal on March 14, 2003."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

59

Age When Released:

62

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Child Abuse Verdicts Unsafe: Ex-carers at boys' home have convictions quashed, Bob Woffinden, The Guardian, London, March 15, 2003"

Information Location 1:

"http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,914532,00.html"

Information Source 2:

"Judges Free Child Abuse Case Pair, Rosie Waterhouse (staff), Telegraph, London, March 15, 2003."

Information Location 2:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/15/nabuse15.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/03/15/ixnewstop.html

Information Source 3:

"Families' Anger and Tears Over the Stolen Years, Rosie Waterhouse (staff), Telegraph, London, March 15, 2003"

Information Location 3:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$AIRWXB4VHF0F1QFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2003/03/15/nabuse115.xml

Information Source 4:

Jubilation In Court As Care Workers Freed

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http://www.richardwebster.net/print/xjubilation.htm

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