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Conviction Of George Kelly

EDM number 59 in 2009-10, proposed by Adrian Sanders on 18/11/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Administration of justice.

That this House notes the quashing after the longest campaign in English legal history lasting 53 years of the conviction of George Kelly who was wrongly convicted of murder in the Cameo Cinema murder case and who was executed in 1950; recognises the efforts of those, including relatives who have died, who sought to overturn the conviction; and calls for a public inquiry into the gross miscarriage of justice.

This motion has been signed by a total of 16 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Adrian Sanders18/11/2009TorbayLiberal DemocratProposed
Peter Bottomley19/11/2009Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn19/11/2009Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Edward O'Hara19/11/2009Knowsley SouthLabourSeconded
Alan Simpson19/11/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSeconded
John Austin23/11/2009Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSeconded
John McDonnell24/11/2009Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Mark Durkan24/11/2009FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Ann Cryer25/11/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Janet Dean25/11/2009BurtonLabourSigned
John Leech25/11/2009Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Dai Davies25/11/2009Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Martin Caton26/11/2009GowerLabourSigned
John Hemming26/11/2009Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Willie Rennie02/12/2009Dunfermline and West FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Alasdair McDonnell14/12/2009Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned

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