Basil Williams-Rigby

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Charge:	Child/Minor Sex Abuse (incl. molestation)
Sentence:	12 years
Years Imprisoned:	4
Year Crime:
Year Convicted:	1999
Year Cleared:	2003
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:
City of Crime:	Merseyside
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Basil Williams-Rigby was wrongly convicted of child abuse. Worked at the same approved child care school in Merseyside as Michael Lawson, 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. First arrested in December 1997, and convicted of 22 out of 47 child abuse counts in 1999."
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:	53
Age When Released:	57
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
Information Source 5:	Background of Basil Williams-Rigby case
Information Location 5:	http://www.factnotfiction.org.uk/frames/back.html
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Basil Williams-Rigby

Charge:

Child/Minor Sex Abuse (incl. molestation)

Sentence:

12 years

Years Imprisoned:

4

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1999

Year Cleared:

2003

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Merseyside

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:

53

Age When Released:

57

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

Information Source 5:

Background of Basil Williams-Rigby case

Information Location 5:

http://www.factnotfiction.org.uk/frames/back.html

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