Good Ol' American Justice

[piggynose]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/officials-wrong-man-mental-facility-us-b1897416.html?amp
Could this have happened in the uk?

[davebro]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1761114.html

[barry1010]

Similar - mistaken identity https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jun/27/home-office-payout-trafficked-vietnamese-man-illegally-detained-five-months-mistaken-identity

[barry1010]

From the 1960s
"Mr. Speaker, it is the uncomfortable and inescapable fact that in England innocent people are charged with or convicted of criminal offences more often than hitherto we would have believed possible. This emerges from the spate of mistaken identity cases which have come to light within the past year.".....
"Albert Edward Chapman of Bradford was charged with using a car knowing it to have been stolen and assaulting the police. He was positively identified by a police officer and a lay driver, neither of whom had any doubt about identification. He was committed to Bradford Sessions and duly convicted by a jury in February of this year and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment."
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1968/mar/20/accused-persons-mistaken-identity

[William51]

Over here i can see an initial mistake being done but it would be rectified, in the US some people are incompetent and self serving.

[davebro]

He will probably get a big pay out & be better off than if he had spent the time he was detained on the streets.

[piggynose]

so happy outcome, davebro?