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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22654, 20 August 1935, Page 18

Mr John Binney, the Sheffield man who served 10 months in Dartmoor lor a crime he did not commit, is to be paid £2OO in compensation. The fact was announced by Captain Euan Wallace, Under-secretary to the Home Office, in the House of Commons, binney, accused of demanding money by menaces from Mrs Hilda A. Cliff, of tbe Rising Sun Hotel, Bamford, was -sentenced in July last year to seven years’ penal servitude at Derbyshire Assizes. The prosecution case rested largely on evidence that the menacing letters were in Binney’s handwriting. But while he was in Dartmoor other letters, in the same handwriting, were received. The Home Secretary asked the Court of Criminal Appeal to review the case and Binney was released.