A Google Search Helps Innocent Man Overturn Theft Conviction 43 Years Later

Stephen Simmons, who was convicted of stealing some Royal Mail bags in 1976, had his conviction overturned after it came to light that the officer who arrested him had framed others years later for the same crime with which he was charged. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

A UK businessman who was convicted of stealing several mail bags in the 1970s has finally had his name cleared thanks to Google.

The man, 62-year-old Stephen Simmons of Dorking, England, was 19 when he and two friends were arrested by Det. Sgt. Derek Ridgewell of the British Transport Police in 1975.