He made a false confession, having already admitted 200 crimes, withdrew it but was convicted after his common blood group matched samples at the scene.

She resisted pressure and threats to sign a false confession, taunted her jailers and several times went on hunger strike to protest against her captivity.

The result was 'internalised false confession': their memories were overwritten with the police's own version of events.

She said that under these pressures, she had made a false confession, which she later recanted while still in custody.

He and his supporters insist that the police forced him to make a false confession by isolating and threatening him for almost a month.