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Adam Bychawski

Adam Bychawski

May 29, 2026

5:25
Can you tell me about the story of Ahmed?
5:27
Yeah.
5:27
So one of the first people I spoke to was, uh, Ahmed Aidan, uh, and his father Mohammed.
5:33
Ahmed was 17 when he was wrongly accused of a sexual assault, and he was, was found guilty by a jury.
5:41
In the process, it was found that he had undiagnosed schizophrenia, so he was given a hospital order rather than a prison sentence.
5:47
Uh, he spent essentially 13 years under this hospital order before he was released.
5:53
And when he was released, his dad, he, he knew he, he, he couldn't have possibly done the crime he'd been convicted for, wrote to the, the Criminal Cases Review Commission to ask them to review the case.
8:51
So what you're saying is that there may well be hundreds of people whose convictions have been overturned, uh, and whose lives have been turned upside down, but who have been told they won't be able to get compensation.

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