IN BRIEF False confession
False confession
A police suspect, Steven Roche, 41, of Buckhaven, Fife, who "confessed" to a theft charge - and was later sentenced to nine months in jail - after police threatened to expose his relationship with a married woman was the victim of a miscarriage of justice, the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh ruled.
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