Other notable cases · 1972 · 1970s

The Maxwell Confait Case

In 1972 Maxwell Confait was strangled in a house fire in south-east London. Three youths were convicted on the basis of unreliable confessions; their convictions were overturned in 1975 and the case led directly to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

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