Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Murder |
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Life Imprisonment |
Years Imprisoned: |
16 |
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1975 |
Year Cleared: |
1991 |
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United Kingdom |
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Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
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Johnny Walker was one of the Birmingham Six. Convicted in August 1975 of bombing two Birmingham city centre pubs in which 21 people died. The convictions of the six codefendants were quashed in 1991 based on overwhelming evidence of their innocence. |
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Male |
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White |
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Innocent UK website |
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http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/birmingham6/ |
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"The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, John Wiley & Sons, 1992, p. 268-273" |
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