He was given 170 years for crimes he didn’t commit. His

Carlos Edmilson da Silva served 12 years in Brazil before being freed, after a widely used police practice led to a false arrest

Carlos Edmilson da Silva had already served three years in prison for a crime he had not committed when he was arrested in the Brazilian city of Barueri and accused of a string of horrific rapes.

His face was plastered across newspapers and TV reports, where he was dubbed the “maniac of Castello Branco”, after the highway where 12 women had been raped over two years.