Sidney Winson

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Charge:	Rape
Sentence:	5 years
Years Imprisoned:	1.16
Year Crime:	2007
Year Convicted:	2008
Year Cleared:	2009
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
City of Crime:	Watford
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Sidney Winson was wrongly convicted in December 2007 of orally raping a woman in a Watford, England hotel room in the summer 2006. Winson's codefendant, Christopher Kitchenside, was acquitted of an identical charge, relating to the same incident. The teenage complainant in the case alleged that first Winson and then Kitchenside forced her to perform oral sex on them at the Watford hotel. After his conviction by a jury Winson was sentenced to five years in prison. In February 2009 the Criminal Court of Appeal quashed Winson's conviction on the basis his conviction was inconsistent with Kitchenside's acquittal, and there was no “legitimate chain of reasoning” for the jury coming to those different verdicts. A retrial wasn't ordered, and Winson was released after serving more than a year in prison."
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Innocence Proved By:	"In February 2009 the Criminal Court of Appeal for England and Wales quashed Winson's conviction on the basis his conviction was inconsistent with Kitchenside's acquittal, and there was no “legitimate chain of reasoning” for the jury coming to those different verdicts. A retrial wasn't ordered."
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Age When Imprisoned:	20
Age When Released:	21
Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Hotel rape conviction overturned, Borehamwood & Elstree Times, February 6, 2009"
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Sidney Winson

Charge:

Rape

Sentence:

5 years

Years Imprisoned:

1.16

Year Crime:

2007

Year Convicted:

2008

Year Cleared:

2009

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Watford

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

20

Age When Released:

21

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"Hotel rape conviction overturned, Borehamwood & Elstree Times, February 6, 2009"

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http://www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk/news/4107300.Hotel_rape_conviction_overturned/

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