"emerged that the Ministry of Justice had denied a claim of £1.4 million compensation made by George in respect of his wrongful imprisonment for Jill Dando's murder. The decision was made by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary and in August 2010 the High Court ruled that George is entitled to a judicial review of the matter. On 11 May 2011, the Supreme Court defined ""miscarriage of justice"" as evidence ""so undermined that no conviction could possibly be based upon it"". This decision cleared the way for George's solicitor, Nicholas Baird, to request that the Justice Secretary Ken Clarke ""consider afresh"""
"by the Court of Appeal and was quashed in 2007. After a retrial, he was acquitted on 1 August 2008, though his claims for compensation for wrongful imprisonment were dismissed. Barry George was born in Hammersmith Hospital, London. His parents had married in July 1954. He was the youngest of three children; they grew up in a high-rise flat in White City, London. His sister Michelle Diskin, who lives in Ireland, is five years older than he is; his sister Susan, three years older than he is, died of epilepsy aged 28. George also has epilepsy. His parents divorced in"
"George's claim for compensation, applying the new test set out by the Court. The claim was heard in the High Court but in their summing up, judges Lord Justice Beatson and Mr Justice Irwin said: ""There was indeed a case upon which a reasonable jury properly directed could have convicted the claimant of murder"" and on the strength of this, denied George compensation for wrongful incarceration. Barry George Barry Michael George (born 15 April 1960, also known as Barry Bulsara) is a British man who was wrongly convicted on 2 July 2001 of the murder of British television presenter Jill"
"had spoken to more than 2,500 people and taken more than 1,000 statements. With little progress after a year, the police concentrated their attention on Barry George, who lived about half a mile from Dando's house. He had a history of stalking women, sexual offences and other antisocial and attention seeking behaviour. George was put under surveillance, arrested on 25 May and charged with Dando's murder on 28 May. George was tried at the Old Bailey, convicted, and on 2 July 2001 was sentenced to life imprisonment. Concern about this conviction was widespread on the basis that the case against"
"87-year-old Ida, to a 12-month rehabilitation order. He also presided over the trial of Michael Barton, who was found guilty in 2005 of murdering Anthony Walker with an axe. In November 2007, the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal, constituted by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Leveson and Mr Justice Simon, quashed the conviction of Barry George and ordered a retrial in relation to the murder in 2001 of BBC presenter Jill Dando. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 2000 and sworn as a Privy Counsellor in 2006. On 1"
"Guy Georges Guy Georges (born Guy Rampillon, 15 October 1962) is a French serial killer, dubbed ""The Beast of the Bastille"", who was convicted of murdering seven women between 1991 and 1997. He was born Guy Rampillon to a French mother and a Black American father (George Cartwright, a soldier ) who abandoned him as a small child. From 1991 to 1997, Guy Georges assaulted, tortured, raped and killed seven women in the neighbourhood of the Bastille, the Bourbon-era Parisian prison. Georges was arrested on 26 March 1998 and admitted his guilt to police. Described by psychiatrists as a ""narcissistic"
"psychopath"", he was sentenced in April 2001 to life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole for 22 years. Guy Georges Guy Georges (born Guy Rampillon, 15 October 1962) is a French serial killer, dubbed ""The Beast of the Bastille"", who was convicted of murdering seven women between 1991 and 1997. He was born Guy Rampillon to a French mother and a Black American father (George Cartwright, a soldier ) who abandoned him as a small child. From 1991 to 1997, Guy Georges assaulted, tortured, raped and killed seven women in the neighbourhood of the Bastille, the Bourbon-era Parisian prison. Georges"
"the case against George appeared thin. Two appeals were unsuccessful, but after Rowe filmed a ""Panorama"" report which discredited forensics evidence was excluded from the prosecution's case, George's third appeal succeeded in November 2007. The original conviction was quashed and a second trial lasting eight weeks ended in George's acquittal on 1 August 2008. Raphael Rowe Raphael Rowe, born March 11, 1968, is an investigative journalist, best known for his work with ""BBC Panorama"". Rowe was convicted in 1990 of murder as part of the M25 Three. After twelve years in prison, the convictions of Rowe and his two co-defendants,"
"Barry Williams (spree killer) Barry Kenneth Williams (1944 – 24 December 2014), known since 1994 as Harry Street, was a British spree killer. A foundry worker who lived with his parents, he shot eight people in the English Midlands towns of West Bromwich and Nuneaton in the space of little over an hour on 26 October 1978, killing five. Following a high-speed car chase, he was arrested and in 1979 was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was detained in high-security hospitals under mental health legislation. After being given a conditional release in 1994, he changed"
"to the Los Angeles County Superior Court on December 23, 1977; George was elected to a full six-year term on November 7, 1978, and re-elected on November 6, 1984. As a Superior Court judge, George presided over the trial of Hillside Strangler Angelo Buono in 1981–1983. George also presided over the trial of Marvin Gay Sr. for the slaying of Gay's son, the singer Marvin Gaye. George was lauded for his extremely unusual decision to deny the motion by Los Angeles County District Attorney's office to dismiss all 10 counts of murder against Buono. However, his unusual decision was speculated"
"Attempts at sparing Barry from the death penalty prompted discussion about capital punishment in the press. Both Michael Barry and the woman he murdered, Mary Barry are buried in the South Rockhampton Cemetery. Mary Barry's funeral was held the day after her murder, when a procession departed her brother-in-law's residence at 10am and arrived at the South Rockhampton Cemetery a short time later where she was buried on 27 February 1890. Michael Barry (murderer) Michael Barry (10 September 1843 - 2 June 1890) was a convicted Australian murderer. Barry was found guilty of murdering his wife, Mary Barry (née McNertney),"
"biopic ""Mad Dog Morgan"", where he is played by Peter Collingwood. Redmond Barry Sir Redmond Barry, (7 June 181323 November 1880), was a colonial judge in Victoria, Australia of Anglo-Irish origins. Barry was the inaugural Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, serving from 1853 until his death in 1880. He is arguably best known for having sentenced Ned Kelly to death. Barry was the third son of Major-General Henry Green Barry, of Ballyclough, County Cork, Ireland, and his wife Phoebe Drought, daughter of John Armstrong Drought and Letita Head. Barry had five brothers and six sisters and was educated at"
"lives in Derbyshire and is an archaeologist, writing in his spare time. He graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2004 with a degree in Archaeology and Prehistory. Scott Lomax Scott Lomax (born 1982) is a campaigner and true crime author who wrote about the case of the convicted murderer Jeremy Bamber, and also about the innocence of Barry George who was acquitted of the murder of Jill Dando on 1 August 2008 after a retrial ordered by the Court of Appeal. He is author of a number of books and articles, the most notable being ""Who Killed Jill Dando?"","
"Camberwell New Cemetery, south London. On 4 March 1969, Ronnie Kray was unanimously found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey of the murder of George Cornell. His brother Reggie was also found guilty of murdering Jack McVitie, who was killed the year after Cornell. They were both sentenced to life imprisonment. Ronnie Kray died in jail in March 1995, while Reggie Kray was imprisoned for a total of 32 years before he was released from custody on compassionate grounds in August 2000 as a result of cancer, from which he died a few weeks after his release. George"
"General for England and Wales and Northern Ireland. The governor said no to a retrial, but Maharaj was instead re-sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002. In 2006, the British human rights organisation Reprieve made an appeal to Governor Jeb Bush for clemency on Maharaj's behalf, pointing out that the jury had heard from none of Maharaj's alibi witnesses, who would have put him 25 miles away at the time of the murder; that the prosecution's star witness had changed his story several times; and that evidence had emerged since the trial that the murder victims were involved in money laundering"
"to Damon's hot-headed recklessness, Barry was calm and responsible and made amends with the Collins after Damon vandalised their house. Barry was hard-working and smart in contrast to Damon. After Barry was stabbed in December 1982 the doctor told him to stay off work, however shortly after Bobby was out-on-strike and the Grants struggled to pay their mortgage. Despite doctors advice Barry went back to work so that his father would not have to suffer the indignity of crossing his own picket line. In the early episodes Barry strikes up a friendship with the recently widowed Petra Taylor. The two"
"an overturning of their convictions and the dropping of charges. Levon Jones Levon ""Bo"" Jones is an American former death row inmate. He was convicted and sentenced to death in North Carolina in 1993 on a count of first-degree murder for a fatal shooting which occurred in 1987. The conviction was overturned by a federal judge in 2006, after a key witness admitted to lying. Charges were subsequently dropped, and Jones was released from prison on May 2, 2008, after spending fifteen years on death row. Jones was the third person to be released from death row in the United"
"Michael Barry (murderer) Michael Barry (10 September 1843 - 2 June 1890) was a convicted Australian murderer. Barry was found guilty of murdering his wife, Mary Barry (née McNertney), in Rockhampton, Queensland on 26 February 1890. He was sentenced to death and was hanged at the Rockhampton Gaol on 2 June 1890. The murder took place at the couple's family home in a semi-private lane, off West Street between Archer and Cambridge Streets in the suburb now known as The Range. It was alleged Barry had begun his relentless, drunken attack on his wife during a prolonged argument regarding a"
"Levon Jones Levon ""Bo"" Jones is an American former death row inmate. He was convicted and sentenced to death in North Carolina in 1993 on a count of first-degree murder for a fatal shooting which occurred in 1987. The conviction was overturned by a federal judge in 2006, after a key witness admitted to lying. Charges were subsequently dropped, and Jones was released from prison on May 2, 2008, after spending fifteen years on death row. Jones was the third person to be released from death row in the United States in 2008, after Kennedy Brewer and Glen Chapman, following"
"Jonathon Edington Jonathon Edington (born October 29, 1976) is a Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, patent lawyer who achieved national notoriety when, on August 28, 2006, he murdered his neighbor, Barry James, after being told that James had molested Edington's two-year-old daughter. There has been no evidence found that Barry James molested Edington's daughter or anyone else. On August 30 Edington was released on $1 million bond. It was widely expected that Edington would attempt to mount a psychiatric defense at his murder trial, however Edington instead pleaded guilty to the crime and was sentenced to 12 years in prison on"
"other source. The Court of Appeal concluded that, if this evidence had been given to the jury at the trial, there was no certainty that the jury would have found George guilty. For this reason his conviction had to be quashed. A retrial was ordered and George was remanded in custody, making no application for bail. George appeared before the Old Bailey on 14 December 2007 and again pleaded not guilty to the murder. His retrial began on 9 June 2008. Initially there was a large amount of coverage in the press, especially of the prosecution portrayal of the defendant"
"Federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, without access to Massachusetts legal materials. However, he was returned to Massachusetts in December, 1983, but did not seek to reopen the matter or inquire as to its status at that time, or at any time thereafter for over twenty years. We perceive no error or abuse of discretion in declining to reopen the proceedings after such a long period of inaction.” Nassar's appeal was denied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on February 15, 2008. George Nassar George Nassar (born June 1932) is an American murderer; Albert DeSalvo allegedly confessed to being the Boston"
"Wendy Sewell, the victim in the Bakewell murder, for which Downing was eventually cleared, may have been another innocent victim of the notorious Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe. Hale was voted 2001 Man of the Year by ""The Observer"" newspaper, Journalist of the Year by ""What the Papers Say"" and was made an OBE for his efforts and campaigning journalism. He has also been national journalist of the year on three occasions, and his campaign to free Stephen Downing won the national campaign of the year award. Hale has also been heavily involved in the controversial case of Barry George, jailed"
"Barry Jones (Australian politician) Barry Owen Jones, (born 11 October 1932), is an Australian polymath, writer, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion and former politician. He campaigned against the death penalty throughout the 1960s, particularly against the execution of Ronald Ryan. He is on the National Trust's list of Australian Living Treasures. Barry Jones was born in Geelong, Victoria and educated at Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne, where he studied arts and law. He began his career as a schoolteacher at Dandenong High School, where he taught for nine years, before becoming a household name as an Australian"
"who have been fighting their own war for control of the drug scene in the area. All but three of the murders remain unsolved. As well as Brian Rattigan's conviction for the Gavin murder, twenty-three-year-old Craig White was convicted of Noel Roche's murder and was given a life sentence in July 2009 after his DNA was found on a pair of gloves that were found near the abandoned getaway car. Gardaí suspect that White, who refused to talk during Garda interviews, was the driver while Paddy Doyle, who was killed in Spain in 2008, was the gunman. Garrett O'Brien (35)"
"I'm still trying to get my voice heard."" Rowe is currently an investigative journalist working for the BBC. His documentary on the conviction of Barry George for the murder of Jill Dando was considered a significant factor in his eventual acquittal. M25 Three The M25 Three were Raphael George Rowe, Michael George Davis, and Randolph Egbert Johnson, who were jailed for life at the Old Bailey in March 1990 after being found guilty of murder and robbery. The name was taken from the location of the crimes, which were committed around the M25, London's orbital motorway, during the early hours"
"witness had told him Beverly Allan was alive on December 28, 1960, over a month after the prosecution claimed she had died. The witness claimed that they had seen Allan at a party held by a local gang on the night of December 28, and that she was being prostituted to partygoers. Edward Jorgenson was released on parole after serving three years in prison, and in January 1976, both he and Brom filed for relief petitions seeking exoneration in the murder charges. Brom was paroled after serving seven years of his sentence. Journalist Phil Stanford, in 2010, stated that he"
"1890 charged with the wilful murder of his wife. Among those who gave evidence was his daughter Johanna who witnessed the murder. Barry was committed for a trial commencing on 23 April 1890. Barry's trial began at the Rockhampton Supreme Court on 23 April 1890 before Justice Charles Mein. Barry was represented by Robert Lyons. Barry pleaded not guilty. With the twelve jury members not being able to agree on a verdict by the end of the day's proceedings, they were locked up for the night. They returned to court the following morning and told Mein they had still not"
"second trial began on May 25, 1909. On May 28, the jury returned a guilty verdict. He received a three-year sentence and was sent to Deer Island Prison. On December 22, 1910, Battis received a pardon from Governor Eben Sumner Draper and the Massachusetts Governor's Council. Battis' poor health, his good behavior in prison, and the fact that others who had been implicated in similar cases had received lighter sentences, were reported to be factors in the decision to pardon him. Upon his release from prison, Battis returned to East Boston. He died in September 1937. George H. Battis George"
"of her death, she was among those with the highest profile of the BBC's on-screen staff, and had been the 1997 BBC Personality of the Year. ""Crimewatch"" reconstructed her murder in an attempt to aid the police in the search for her killer. After Barry George was charged with the murder but acquitted, ""Crimewatch"" made no further appeals for information concerning the case. Dando was a devout Baptist. From 1989 to 1996, she dated BBC executive Bob Wheaton. She also had a relationship with national park warden Simon Basil. In December 1997, Dando met gynaecologist Alan Farthing on a blind"
"Malcolm George Baker Malcolm George Baker (born 13 August 1947) is an Australian spree killer from Terrigal, New South Wales, currently serving six sentences of life imprisonment for the shooting massacre of seven people, including an unborn child, in Terrigal, Bateau Bay and Wyong on the evening of 27 October 1992 (known as the Central Coast massacre). The shootings started at 9:12 p.m. at the Terrigal apartment of his ex-girlfriend Kerry Gannon and her younger sister Lisa Gannon. Baker used his shotgun to smash the front window. 22-year-old Christopher Gall, a friend of the sisters, was the first person shot,"
"his arrest – the Metropolitan Police maintain there were no armed officers present during the arrest of George. There was scientific evidence linking Barry George to the murder in the form of a single microscopic particle of what was said to have been gunshot residue, together with evidence as to the character of a fibre found on his clothing. It was argued by the defence that the presence of armed officers and their involvement in his arrest might have been responsible for the gunshot residue. In September 2006, following investigations by George's campaigners and a ""Panorama"" documentary about the conviction"
"Barry was accused of letting a woman perform oral sex on him in a prison waiting room, a charge Barry denied. Barry was transferred to another federal prison in Loretto, Pennsylvania. Barry was released in April 1992. In May 2013, after Toronto mayor Rob Ford was allegedly videotaped smoking what was reported to be crack, parallels were made with the similarity to the 1990 incident. Barry denied any similarity, stating: ""Unless he was entrapped by the government, it's not similar."" Barry was released from prison in 1992, and two months later filed papers to run for the Ward 8 city"