This really takes the biscuit.
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The Court of Appeal has overturned the conviction of a former care worker who was serving an eight-year sentence for child abuse.
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The court heard that evidence by two former pupils did not tally with dates Mr Sheikh was employed as housemaster at the North Yorkshire home
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More than 100 former teachers and carers are to have their convictions of child abuse investigated.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission and Historical Abuse Appeal Panel are reportedly planning to look into the possibility that there have been dozens of miscarriages of justice.
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There are now fears that some of the alleged victims made false claims in the hope of compensation
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'And often there is very little evidence apart from what the complainants themselves, the alleged victims, have to say.'
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