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Mistaken Identity

This guy’s spent 30 years trying to prove his ex-wife is the Athena ‘Tennis Girl’

The picture was taken by photographer Martin Elliot, who always claimed it was of Fiona Butler, and taken in 1976.

However Peter claims that the picture is actually of his ex-wife (who wishes to remain anonymous), and was taken in 1972, when she was Martin Elliot’s tennis coach.

And now Peter believes he has definitive evidence, in the form of a postcard he bought off eBay – stamped with the postmark of 1974 – which he says proves the picture existed before 1976.
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http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/24/this-...-the-athena-tennis-girl-5077002/?ito=facebook
 
I'm sure his ex-wife is highly delighted with his efforts. ;)
 
No, swingers ... Real cops don't strip, and cop-costumed strippers can't bust you ...
Police officer mistaken for stripper after coming to break up swingers sex party

A sex party for 20 couples at a farm located in Sierra de Los Padres, Mar del Plata, some 250 miles south of the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires was raided by police after their received reports that the event was breaching lockdown conditions.

The group of married couples had paid the organisers for a "sexual tour" that included accommodation, meals and "several nights of fun," according to local reports.

Unfortunately for the lockdown-busting party guests, a disgruntled swinger who had not been invited to the proceedings called the police to notify them about the swingers’ event.

Even more unfortunately for the couples that had paid for a long weekend of adult entertainment, the coppers that interrupted proceedings at about 10pm on January 8 were decidedly not on the menu.

"When they saw us they thought we were part of the show. [They assumed] we were strippers," one of the attending officers told a reporter from local news site ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/police-officer-mistaken-stripper-after-23305274
 
I've seen that in fiction, e.g. an Only Fools and Horses (sitcom) episode, though it's often the other way around: the stripper gets mistaken for a real copper.
 
Here's a real-life nightmare situation. A Hawaii man who was homeless and had mental health issues was arrested after being mis-identified as a probation violator who wasn't even in Hawaii at the time. Though he protested the misidentification and repeatedly identified himself no one believed him and simply increased his medication. He was finally released from a mental facility after two and two-thirds years.
He was committed to a Hawaii state hospital for nearly 3 years in a case of mistaken identity. Now he wants the record set straight, Hawaii Innocence Project says

The Hawaii Innocence Project has filed a memo in support of a man they say was wrongly incarcerated at Hawaii State Hospital for two years and eight months in a case of mistaken identity.

The memo, filed Monday, supports the petition of Joshua Spriestersbach, who is requesting the state of Hawaii correct the records and vacate the arrest that led to his confinement at the hospital.

According to the Hawaii Innocence Project, on May 11, 2017, Spriestersbach, who struggles with a mental health disability, was waiting for food outside of a shelter for homeless people with mental health issues in Honolulu, when he fell asleep waiting in line.

Spriestersbach was arrested by an unnamed Honolulu police officer ...

The memo said Spriestersbach thought he was being arrested for a local ordinance against sitting or lying down in public spaces, but the memo said he was actually arrested for a probation violation for a person named Thomas Castleberry.

“Instead of comparing Mr. Spriestersbach’s booking photograph and fingerprints to the real Mr. Castleberry’s, they booked Mr. Spriestersbach for Mr. Castleberry’s crime despite Mr. Spriestersbach providing his name and identifying information” ...

Jail records in Alaska show that Thomas R. Castleberry was incarcerated at the Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward at the time Spriestersbach was arrested. Castleberry is not due to be released from the facility until 2022. ...

According to the memo, Spriestersbach was transferred to the Hawaii State Hospital (HSH) where he told his doctors and providers that he was not Castleberry, that his name was Joshua Spriestersbach and provided his date of birth and social security number. ...

“Yet, the more Mr. Spriestersbach vocalized his innocence by asserting that he is not Mr. Castleberry, the more he was declared delusional and psychotic by the H.S.H. staff and doctors and heavily medicated” ...

The Hawaii Department of the Attorney General told CNN it will look into allegations that Spriestersbach’s true identity should have been determined throughout his prosecution and confinement.
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FULL STORY: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/06/us/hawaii-joshua-spriestersbach-mistaken-identity-arrest/index.html
 
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EnolaGaia said:
Here's a real-life nightmare situation. A Hawaii man who was homeless and had mental health issues was arrested after being mis-identified as a probation violator who wasn't even in Hawaii at the time. Though he protested the misidentification and repeatedly identified himself no one believed him and simply increased his medication. He was finally released from a mental facility after two and two-threds years.

FULL STORY: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/06/us/hawaii-joshua-spriestersbach-mistaken-identity-arrest/index.html
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I hope he gets the record expunged and is compensated handsomely for his wrongful incarceration,
 
Another appalling case.

Seven men have been found guilty of the kidnap and murder of a man they wrongly suspected of raping a teenage girl.

Christopher Hughes was found dead near a road in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, after being stabbed over 90 times. The 37-year-old, from Wigan, had been snatched from a street and bundled into the boot of an Audi before being driven to his death in February.

At Liverpool Crown Court the men were remanded in custody and will be sentenced later.

The court heard during the trial how Mr Hughes had been hunted by the gang, who wrongly suspected him of the knifepoint rape of a teenage girl behind a post office in Wigan. When he was spotted in Almond Grove, Wigan on 18 February he was abducted by Curtis Balbas and Erland Spahiu. The former boxer was driven to White Moss Road South, Skelmersdale, where he was stabbed to death.

On the evening of the killing Dean O'Neill Davey, Andrius Uzkuraitis, Erland Spahiu and his cousin, who was visiting from London, Erion Voja, had tried to hide the body, said John Elvidge, KC, prosecuting. The gang had attempted to bury Mr Hughes' body on waste land but were disturbed by police cars investigating a road traffic accident nearby. They abandoned the burial and his body was found at the foot of the embankment on White Moss Road South by a dog walker four days later. ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-64385668
 
ramonmercado said:
Another appalling case.

Seven men have been found guilty of the kidnap and murder of a man they wrongly suspected of raping a teenage girl.

Christopher Hughes was found dead near a road in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, after being stabbed over 90 times. The 37-year-old, from Wigan, had been snatched from a street and bundled into the boot of an Audi before being driven to his death in February.

At Liverpool Crown Court the men were remanded in custody and will be sentenced later.

The court heard during the trial how Mr Hughes had been hunted by the gang, who wrongly suspected him of the knifepoint rape of a teenage girl behind a post office in Wigan. When he was spotted in Almond Grove, Wigan on 18 February he was abducted by Curtis Balbas and Erland Spahiu. The former boxer was driven to White Moss Road South, Skelmersdale, where he was stabbed to death.

On the evening of the killing Dean O'Neill Davey, Andrius Uzkuraitis, Erland Spahiu and his cousin, who was visiting from London, Erion Voja, had tried to hide the body, said John Elvidge, KC, prosecuting. The gang had attempted to bury Mr Hughes' body on waste land but were disturbed by police cars investigating a road traffic accident nearby. They abandoned the burial and his body was found at the foot of the embankment on White Moss Road South by a dog walker four days later. ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-64385668
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Shocking. Was this a case of mistaken identity or was he falsely accused by the teenager I wonder?. That detail's been conspicuously left out. It's very sad either way.
 
Rotterdam man gets piles of unjustified fines due to screw on someone else's number plate

A man from Rotterdam has been wrongly receiving parking fines from Breda municipality for two years. This is because of a screw on a registration plate of a car in the Brabant city.

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According to the man, he received the first fine from Breda in August 2022, when he was on holiday. He assumed that someone had borrowed his car and had been in Breda. However, this turned out not to be the case. After investigation at the municipality, a different car turned out to be on the scan photo; his parking fine was withdrawn.

After that, the fines kept coming in, up to four a week. Each time he objected and each time the fine was withdrawn. This has happened almost 50 times now, writes Rijnmond.

‘Every time I get an e-mail saying it is a mistake and that the car in question is not my car.’ Breda municipality says the number plate is swapped with another, which differs by one letter. ‘I have a B, and he or she has a D,’ said 42-year-old Abdullah. Incidentally, the car also has a different colour and is of a different make to that of the Rotterdam man.

Investigating on his own
The Rotterdam man decided to investigate further himself. He asked someone in Breda to take a picture of the car in the street where all the parking fines were coming from. The culprit turned out to be a screw in the middle of the letter D on the number plate. ‘As a result, the scan car reads a B,’ he explained.

Unaware of any wrongdoing
Abdullah suspects that the owner of the car in Breda lives there and has a parking permit. ‘Only that scan car thinks every time that a car from Rotterdam-Zuid is parked there,’ he says.

A screw turns out to be the culprit
The municipality has confirmed that the recurring error must be due to the screw, yet the scan car keeps registering Abdullah's car. ‘I am so fed up with it. I have to get it right every time. I spend so much time on it.’ Other agencies cannot do anything, the man tells Rijnmond.

A spokesman for the municipality of Breda tells the broadcaster that an adjustment has been made in the system, which means that from now on the Rotterdam man will no longer receive parking fines.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2519788-rott...oetes-door-schroef-op-andermans-kentekenplaat
 
uair01 said:
A spokesman for the municipality of Breda tells the broadcaster that an adjustment has been made in the system, which means that from now on the Rotterdam man will no longer receive parking fines.
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And how many times have we heard that?

I wonder how long it will take for the next one to arrive...or perhaps the Dutch system is more efficient than ours over here.
 
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