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Hanged Man's Conviction Overturned

A man hanged in Britain in 1950 has had his conviction quashed. Three London judges ruled the conviction "unsafe" becasue the prosecution had withheld a statement from one of their witnesses that an accomplice who had been tried and acquitted later confessed to committing the murder for which George Kelly was hanged.

The conviction had been obtained solely on circumstantial evidence with no forensic support. Do you really think this hasn't happened here?

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