![]() ![]() ![]() "At every parole hearing I sat before a panel who shook their heads at me, considering me to be dangerous - and all that time the real perpetrator, the real dangerous person, was free. “Seventeen years, four months and 16 days of that time were spent in prison. It has taken nearly 20 years to persuade my kidnappers to let me go. "The police, prison officers, probation, prisoners, journalists, judges - as a minority of one, you are forced to live their false fantasy. But all the people around you start living in a false fantasy universe and treat you as if you are guilty. "When a jury finds you guilty when you are innocent, reality does not change. That declaration from that bench in there behind me is not news to me. "Nothing any police officer, court or commission said about me since 2003 changed that reality. But I have been innocent all along, for each of those 20 years that came before today. "Today we told this court I was innocent and, finally, they listened. "They didn't investigate and they didn't believe me. "I applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which is supposed to investigate miscarriages of justice, and told them I was innocent. "I came to this appeal court in 2006 and told them I was innocent. "I came to the crown court in Manchester in 2004 and told the jury I was innocent. "I came to the police station in 2003 and told the officers I was innocent. Appeal Court clears man of rape after two decade journey to prove innocence ![]()
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