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Ade Adedeji, 21, from Manchester, served three years for a crime he did not commit before his conviction was quashed

Along with 10 other black teenagers in Manchester, he was jailed in 2022 for supposedly being part of a violent conspiracy after sending a handful of messages in a group chat, in a case that prompted widespread outrage. He was sitting with his barrister, Keir Monteith KC, for the first time since the successful appeal against his conviction, before they took part in the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre’s annual lecture at De Montfort University in Leicester. Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The GuardianBecause his conviction was quashed, he hasn’t received the support offered to offenders leaving prison, and returning to his old life has been a slow process.

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