Sibulele Mjali

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Charge:	Failure to pay transit fare
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Year Crime:	2016
Year Convicted:	2016
Year Cleared:	2016
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
City of Crime:	Gloucester
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Sibulele Mjali was wrongly convicted on August 13, 2016 of the misdemeanor of failing to pay a train fare in South Derbyshire, England. Mjali, 28, appealed her conviction. In September 2016 the appeals court in Cheltenham quashed Mjali's conviction on the basis the evidence established that it was her twin sister Sibabaline Mjali, who had travelled on the train without paying the fare, and "the courts have erroneously chased this lady.""
Conviction Caused By:	"Mistaken eyewitness identification confusing Sibulele Mjali with her twin sister,"
Innocence Proved By:	"In September 2016 the appeals court in Cheltenham quashed Mjali's conviction on the basis the evidence established that it was her twin sister Sibabaline Mjali, who had travelled on the train without paying the fare, and "the courts have erroneously chased this lady.""
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Information Source 1:	"It wasn't me, it was my twin sister': Woman has train fare dodging conviction quashed, By Phil Norris, GloucestershireLive.co.uk, September 11, 2016"
Information Location 1:	http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/it-wasn-t-me-it-was-my-twin-sister-woman-has-train-dodging-conviction-quashed/story-29705614-detail/story.html
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Sibulele Mjali

Charge:

Failure to pay transit fare

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2016

Year Convicted:

2016

Year Cleared:

2016

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Gloucester

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Mistaken eyewitness identification confusing Sibulele Mjali with her twin sister,"

Innocence Proved By:

"In September 2016 the appeals court in Cheltenham quashed Mjali's conviction on the basis the evidence established that it was her twin sister Sibabaline Mjali, who had travelled on the train without paying the fare, and "the courts have erroneously chased this lady.""

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Female

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Information Source 1:

"It wasn't me, it was my twin sister': Woman has train fare dodging conviction quashed, By Phil Norris, GloucestershireLive.co.uk, September 11, 2016"

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http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/it-wasn-t-me-it-was-my-twin-sister-woman-has-train-dodging-conviction-quashed/story-29705614-detail/story.html

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