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at Liverpool crown court facing 21 charges of abuse of children at a Merseyside
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and Jones was acquitted.
In 2002 Anver Sheikh was accused of sexually assaulting two youths at the care
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home where he worked 20 years earlier. In 2004 his solicitor found records
proving that Anver Sheikh had not been at the home at the relevant time: his
conviction was quashed but he was sent for retrial. His accusers changed the dates
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in their statements and he was convicted again. In 2006 his solicitor uncovered
evidence that showed his accusers had lied . His conviction was quashed and he
was freed in October 2006.
In 2003 Basil Williams-Rigby and Michael Lawson were released after serving three
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years in prison for offences alleged to have been committed at an approved school
in Merseyside in the 1970's and 80's The Court of Appeal quashed their conviction.
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F.A.C.T. (Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers)
is a voluntary organisation which supports carers and
Public Warning
if they touch
patients teachers who have been falsely accused and/or
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12 Ma rch 200 7 wrongly convicted of child abuse, and campaigns on
If someone close to YOU
their behalf for changes in investigative practice, and works with children or
Children’s
Commissioner
for reform of the criminal justice system. vulnerable adults ...
says adults are
now scared F.A.C.T. recognises that in the past some carers and
to work with … you could see them unjustly dragged through the courts, vilified as a
children teachers have abused children but says false
monster, and taken away from their family to serve a long prison sentence.
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allegations have snowballed to such an extent that “if
you work, or have ever worked, with children you F.A.C.T. believes that at least 120 people working in the teaching, caring, and
related professions have already been imprisoned for crimes they did not
abuse claim now stand a very good chance of being wrongly commit. Most stand convicted of historic sexual abuse said to have taken
islander weeps accused of abuse”.
as key witness place as long as 40 years ago.
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All of them maintain their innocence even though this means they will have to
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For more information please contact serve longer sentences for doing so.
26 Sep t 200 6 F.A.C.T., P.O. Box 3074, Cardiff CF3 3WZ
We have every sympathy with those who have genuinely been abused and
Phone 02920 777 499. Email: sec@factuk.org or support them in wishing to see justice done. Unfortunately many individuals
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visit www.factuk.org are now are now making untrue allegations, often for psychological reasons,