John Lyon McCloy

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Charge:	Robbery (includes armed robbery)
Sentence:	12 years
Years Imprisoned:	12
Year Crime:	1980
Year Convicted:	1982
Year Cleared:	2007
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
City of Crime:	Birmingham
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"John Lyon McCloy’s confession was the basis of his 1982 conviction of being involved in a 1980 Birmingham, England robbery during which a security guard was killed. McCloy protested that he was innocent and he had been forced into falsely confessing. His sentence was reduced to 12 years in 1984, and he was released after serving his sentence. On May 15, 2007, England’s Court of Criminal Appeal quashed McCloy’s conviction on the basis that his confession was false, and he had made it after being tortured by a notorious Birmingham police squad that was disbanded in disgrace in 1989. Read The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland) story."
Conviction Caused By:	False confession extracted by police torture tactics.
Innocence Proved By:	"On May 15, 2007, England’s Court of Criminal Appeal quashed McCloy’s conviction on the basis that his confession was false, and he had made it after being tortured by a notorious Birmingham police squad that was disbanded in disgrace in 1989."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Conviction quashed 25 years after confession by torture - By Eben Harrell, The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), May 16, 2007"
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John Lyon McCloy

Charge:

Robbery (includes armed robbery)

Sentence:

12 years

Years Imprisoned:

12

Year Crime:

1980

Year Convicted:

1982

Year Cleared:

2007

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Birmingham

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confession extracted by police torture tactics.

Innocence Proved By:

"On May 15, 2007, England’s Court of Criminal Appeal quashed McCloy’s conviction on the basis that his confession was false, and he had made it after being tortured by a notorious Birmingham police squad that was disbanded in disgrace in 1989."

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Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"Conviction quashed 25 years after confession by torture - By Eben Harrell, The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), May 16, 2007"

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http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=758002007

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