The pair spent four years in jail before their conviction was overturned in October 2011 on the grounds that DNA evidence was flawed.

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In 1998 Mr Anwar, then deputy prime minister, was tried for a similar offence and spent six years in jail, before his conviction was quashed.

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Ill-tempered and alcoholic, she gambled, incurred huge debts, spent three months in Holloway prison after a conviction for fraud, and told her daughter that she was better-born than her.

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He spent time in prison in 2007 for trying to lie his way out of a speeding conviction.

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