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Glad he found some justice. The Canadian system mimicks the British one, scumbags like this become Chiefs of Police here. No honor or character among some of these dirty trash, he died in prison some time ago but noone bothered to clear this good mans name?
Messed up, old, fossil of a British system.
British man has decades-old theft conviction cleared after Googling arresting officer's name
A British man’s decades-old theft conviction from the 1970s was overturned Wednesday after he Googled his arresting officer’s name and discovered he committed a similar crime.
Stephen Simmons, 62, of Surrey, was arrested in south London’s Clapham on theft charges in June 1975 by Detective Sergeant Derek Ridgewell, of the British Transport Police, The Guardian reported.
Now running an audio and phone equipment business, in 1976 Simmons was found guilty of stealing mailbags and served eight months in a juvenile jail — but always maintained his innocence.
A lawyer on a British radio show once suggested to Simmons that if he wanted his theft conviction overturned, he should Google his arresting officer, the Court of Appeal heard Wednesday.
"I found out he'd been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for the theft of Royal Mail bags and selling them, and framing people for it,” Simmons told BBC Surrey, and later told The Guardian he was “gobsmacked” at the finding.
Messed up, old, fossil of a British system.
British man has decades-old theft conviction cleared after Googling arresting officer's name
A British man’s decades-old theft conviction from the 1970s was overturned Wednesday after he Googled his arresting officer’s name and discovered he committed a similar crime.
Stephen Simmons, 62, of Surrey, was arrested in south London’s Clapham on theft charges in June 1975 by Detective Sergeant Derek Ridgewell, of the British Transport Police, The Guardian reported.
Now running an audio and phone equipment business, in 1976 Simmons was found guilty of stealing mailbags and served eight months in a juvenile jail — but always maintained his innocence.
A lawyer on a British radio show once suggested to Simmons that if he wanted his theft conviction overturned, he should Google his arresting officer, the Court of Appeal heard Wednesday.
"I found out he'd been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for the theft of Royal Mail bags and selling them, and framing people for it,” Simmons told BBC Surrey, and later told The Guardian he was “gobsmacked” at the finding.
