Mahmood Hussein Mattan

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death and Executed
Years Imprisoned:	1
Year Crime:	1952
Year Convicted:	1952
Year Cleared:	1998
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	Wales
City of Crime:	Cardiff
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Posthumously
Summary of Case:	"Mahmood Hussein Mattan was a Somali sailor wrongly convicted on July 24, 1952 of the March 6, 1952 murder of a woman. His appeal was denied on August 19, 1952, and he was hanged in Cardiff jail two weeks later - less than 6 weeks after his conviction. 46 years after his execution his conviction was quashed by England's Court of Appeals on February 28, 1998. Mahmood Hussein Mattan was the first person in Britain to have their conviction posthumously quashed after being executed. Mattan's family was awarded compensation of 700,000 pounds."
Conviction Caused By:	"Prosecutorial misconduct of concealing exculpatory evidence, Inconsistent witness statements, credibility of prosecution witnesses"
Innocence Proved By:	Court of Appeals quashed conviction on 2-28-98
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Compensation Awarded:	"£700,000 (England) (Money to family)"
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Age When Imprisoned:	28
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Hanged man cleared 46 years on, By Jason Bennetto (Crime Correspondent), The Independent (UK), February 25, 1998"
Information Location 1:	http://www.independent.co.uk/news/hanged-man-cleared-46-years-on-1146778.html
Information Source 2:	Innocent UK website
Information Location 2:	http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/
Information Source 3:	"The Criminal Case Review Commission (UK), Annual Report 1998-99, p 9"
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Mahmood Hussein Mattan

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death and Executed

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

1952

Year Convicted:

1952

Year Cleared:

1998

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

Wales

City of Crime:

Cardiff

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Posthumously

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Prosecutorial misconduct of concealing exculpatory evidence, Inconsistent witness statements, credibility of prosecution witnesses"

Innocence Proved By:

Court of Appeals quashed conviction on 2-28-98

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"£700,000 (England) (Money to family)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

28

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"Hanged man cleared 46 years on, By Jason Bennetto (Crime Correspondent), The Independent (UK), February 25, 1998"

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/hanged-man-cleared-46-years-on-1146778.html

Information Source 2:

Innocent UK website

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

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"The Criminal Case Review Commission (UK), Annual Report 1998-99, p 9"

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