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Dance teacher jailed for falsely accusing Louis Walsh of groping him
A dance teacher was yesterday (24th jan) jailed for six months for falsely accusing X Factor judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub. Leonard Watters pleaded guilty to making two false reports to Irish police that the pop music mogul sexually assaulted …
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Chris Jefferries who was wrongly accused of murdering Joanna Yeates informs the Levenson Inquiry that he was falsely accused of being a pervert, gay, bisexual and of being friend of a pedophile
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This items appears on the Independent Catholic News website (here)
Irish broadcasters RTE have apologised without reservation for false accusing a missionary in Kenya of raping a woman.In a statement, the Irish Missionary Union has welcomed the fact that RTE “has settled the defamation against it and has apologised unreservedly for the defamation inflicted on Fr Kevin Reynolds MHM, a Mill Hill Missionary whom it falsely accused of raping a woman in Kenya.”
The IMU says in a statement:
“We acknowledge the suffering that Fr Kevin has had to endure through this ordeal. The courage of Fr Kevin and the dignity with which ...
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Two schoolgirls were awarded over €10,500 each after being falsely accused of shoplifting when they agreed to help an old lady carry her shopping bags across a street.
Barrister Conor Bowman told the Circuit Civil Court that Danielle Meehan (17) and Lauren Matthews (13) — who were innocent — were corralled by security men on the Dublin street, along with the old woman, who was a well-known shoplifter, and herded back into a Marks & Spencer’s store.
Judge Leonie Reynolds said Danielle and Lauren, who were being “Good Samaritans”, had been defamed and falsely imprisoned by the store’s security staff.
Judge Reynolds awarded ...
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A top West Midlands Police officer has been cleared of child sex offence charges.
Det Insp Glen Boulton, 46, was found not guilty after the Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence.
Judge Robert Orme directed the jury to return not guilty verdicts at Warwick Crown Court.
The officer of more than 20 years experience said he was now looking forward to returning to work and a normal family life.
DI Boulton, of Bentley Heath, Solihull, had been charged with four counts of indecent assault and two counts of indecency with a child under the age of 13 between 1978 and 1984.
Prosecutor Steven Bailey said ...
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A Kent police officer who was accused of falsely claiming she was attacked while on duty has been cleared of wasting police time.
PC Fran Croucher was found not guilty following a 10-day trial at Maidstone Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.
She was arrested after she reported being beaten unconscious in Crockenhill Road, Swanley, on 14 January 2010.
Kent Police said she remained suspended from duty until an internal investigation had concluded.
PC Croucher was found unconscious on the ground by colleagues and taken to hospital following a routine search of a van which had a missing rear number plate in 2010.
‘Very, very angry’
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This article by Mark Townsend appeared in the Guardian on the 9th October (here)
Police warned about rising risk of false confessions
Up to 20% of convicted criminals may have owned up to an offence they did not commit”’
Police need to be more aware of the danger of false confessions, according to a study that suggests that up to one in five convicted criminals may have pleaded guilty at some point to an offence they have not committed.
Gisli Gudjonsson, professor of forensic psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, said false confessions were a significant phenomenon of which the criminal justice system ...
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This article by James Tozer appeared in the Daily Mail on the 27th September
A teacher cleared of sexually assaulting six pupils yesterday told of the agony of being ordered to live away from his wife and baby son.
Peter Wilson suffered the indignity of social workers attending the birth of his first child and making him swear he would not live with his family for the eight months it took to resolve the allegations.
Yesterday a jury took just 20 minutes to acquit him of all the charges, brought after girls at his primary school accused him of kissing them and touching ...
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This article appeared on the This is Hull and East Riding website on 24th September 2012
Stopped from seeing his own children by social services after the allegations were made by the 15-year-old boy, it took Mark Ellwood 18 months to clear his name.
For the former kickboxer, with almost 250 fights under his belt, it was his lowest point of his life.
Now cleared by a court and exonerated by the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA), Mark’s life is on the up after launching his own kickboxing gym.
“I really feel like I can finally get back to doing what I know best after ...
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This item appeared on the Yorkshire Post web site here
A campaign for an overhaul of the law to grant anonymity to teachers accused by pupils ahead of court cases has been launched by a lawyer who has joined forces with an international best-selling author.
The call for the so-called Bill’s Law has been named after a respected teacher, William Stuart, who was acquitted following a six-month ordeal which was sparked when a 15-year-old girl alleged he had assaulted her.
His solicitor, Nick Turner, has linked up with the best-selling author Graham Taylor – a family friend of the Stuarts in Scarborough and ...
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A man who accused X Factor judge Louis Walsh of sexual assault has been charged with making false claims.
Leonard Watters, 24, of Navan, Co Meath, initially claimed that 58-year-old Walsh had groped him at the Krystle nightclub in Dublin after a Westlife concert in June.
He appeared in court yesterday in Dublin and is facing two charges of lying to gardai.
He was charged in June with one court of making a false statement on June 20th and the second charge relates to a statement he made to gardai on June 27th.
Walsh, who was questioned by police over the claims, denied the ...
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This items appears on the Daily Telegraph website
A secondary school assistant head teacher has spoken of his anguish at being accused of assualt by an unruly pupil as he tried to restore order in his school.
Since March, life for the Stuart family has been turned upside down. Even a shopping trip to town became an ordeal, through fear of people pointing and whispering behind their hands that there was “no smoke without fire”.
After a 23-year unblemished career as a teacher, William Stuart was arrested six months ago and accused of assaulting a 15-year-old girl in a corridor at Graham School, ...
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We are pleased to announce that PAFAA (People Against False Allegations of Abuse) and SOFAP (Support Organisation for Falsely Accused People have launched a new web site (here). The site has been set up in an effort to offer help and support to anyone who has been falsely accused of abuse of a sexual nature.
As a completely voluntary organisation, PAFAA/SOFAP are concerned primarily with the current climate that makes it possible for anyone to be accused of abuse, especially of a sexual nature, and in particular against children.
PAFFA/SOPFAP make it clear that they are not a haven for abusers and ...
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Charges have been dropped against a nurse accused of contaminating saline at Stockport’s Stepping Hill Hospital.
Rebecca Leighton, 27, of Heaviley, was arrested by police investigating the deaths of several patients in July.
Greater Manchester Police have revealed they are investigating 40 cases of contamination including seven deaths.
Prosecutors said there had not been “sufficient evidence” for whether the case could go ahead. Miss Leighton said she had been “living in hell”.
‘Living nightmare’
Officers said Miss Leighton was released from prison on Friday afternoon after she was told by the governor at HMP Styal in Cheshire that the charges against ...
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This item which appeared under the title “Wicked’ Blackmailer Catherine Bennett took £26,000″ has been extracted from the BBC Wales website here
A woman has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after the “wicked and persistent” blackmailing of a man for £26,200.
Catherine Bennett, 30, of Newtown, Powys, threatened to lie to police and falsely claim her victim was a paedophile, Mold Crown Court heard.
She also falsely claimed the man from Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, who cannot be named, had raped her.
Bennett admitted blackmail between January and November last year.
The court heard her victim went into debt, took out loans ...
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This item has been extracted from the Press Gazette website (here) to which full acknowledgement is given.
A senior judge named all the adults involved in a case in which a father was falsely accused of sexually abusing his daughter so that the public could know that the man was not a paedophile.
Sir Nicholas Wall, President of the Family Division of the High Court, took the unusual step yesterday in a case in which the mother of a little girl at the centre of a custody battle “manufactured” claims that the child’s father had sexually abused ...
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A head teacher with cancer was banned from parks, libraries and leisure centres after his resentful assistant made false allegations that he bullied her, an employment tribunal found.
James Walker, a popular and long-serving head, was driven to the brink of suicide when his employers treated him in a manner “which bordered callousness”, a judge said. While he was suspended and awaiting the outcome of an investigation, his office was cleared and the contents put into rubbish bags, which the tribunal decided was “inexcusable”. None of his personal items was returned by the London ...
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Eight national newspapers have made public apologies today to Christopher Jefferies for the libellous allegations made against him following the murder of Joanna Yeates.
These include
The Sun
Daily Mirror
Sunday Mirror
Daily Record
Daily Mail
Daily Star
The Scotsman
Daily Express
They have also agreed to pay him substantial libel damages, thought to total six figures.
The solicitor for Mr Jefferies, Louis Charalambous, told Mr Justice Tugendhat in the high court hearing that the newspapers had acknowledged the falsity of the allegations, which were published in more than 40 articles.
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The Guardian, 29th July 2011
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Louis Walsh
‘X Factor’ judge Louis Walsh says he has ”changed forever” after being falsely accused of sexual assault, an ordeal which has made him ”physically ill”.
Louis Walsh says he has “changed forever” after being falsely accused of sexual assault.
The ‘X Factor’ judge – who has been cleared of accusations that he indecently assaulted a 24-year-old father in the toilets of a Dublin nightclub in April – admits the past few weeks have taken their toll on him and he has been “physically ill” because of it.
He told the Sunday Mirror newspaper: “I’ve changed ...
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This item has been extracted from an article in the Daily Mail printed on the 13th July 2011
A teacher falsely accused of assaulting a disruptive pupil won his battle to clear his name yesterday.
Despite 33 years of unblemished service, Ronnie Lane was sacked after the 15-year-old claimed the arts teacher had seized his arm and left him with scratch marks.
School chiefs rejected Mr Lane’s defence that he simply touched the boy’s arm while asking him to let go of a classmate’s painting.
Yesterday an employment tribunal backed Mr Lane’s version of events, ruling he had been ...
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This item has been taken from the Guardian Website (here) on the 6th July 2011
Eight former police officers fabricated a case against three men wrongly convicted of the brutal murder of a woman working as a prostitute, a jury was told on Wednesday.
The officers “acted corruptly together” to manufacture the case against the men they suspected killing of Lynette White in Cardiff in 1988.
Nicholas Dean QC, prosecuting, said the case was “almost entirely a fabrication” and the accusations were “largely the product of the imagination and then the theories and beliefs of police officers”.
The case is ...
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