A man wrongly imprisoned for a series of child sex crimes is desperately fighting for compensation after spending his life savings on proving his innocence.
Brian Buckle, 51, spent five years behind bars for crimes he didn't commit - until he paid out £500,000 in a last-ditch attempt at freedom.
In 2017, he was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault, three of indecency and one of attempted rape of a girl alleged to have been between eight and 10 years old, more than 20 years earlier.
He then was thrown in a cell with a convicted rapist describing his time in prison as 'horrendous' claiming that the 'system just forgets about you' while inside.
But the father consistently protested he had not committed the crimes, and his wife Elaine stuck by his side, with the couple spending hundreds of thousands of pounds to clear his name.
