Jonathon MANLEY
Jonathan Manley was charged and falsely imprisoned for 12 months with the murder of his 22 month old son based on faulty expert evidence. The prosecution was deemed to have gone “Expert Shopping” – being very selective in which expert would testify. A British medical expert was utilised, after no Australian medical expert would testify that the child was murdered.
In 1994, the Court of Criminal Appeal eventually acquitted Jonathan Manley of murder because the verdict was deemed to be undesirable and unsafe. The baby was deemed to have died from natural causes. The case against him was seen to be hopelessly weak, however due to a lack of fabricated evidence Mr Manley was not legible to compensation.
Jonathan Manley has released a book which was published in 1998 titled “Enemies Without Case – convicted, imprisoned, innocent".