Bruce Anthony Hyman is a British

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. A

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by profession, in 2007 Hyman was the first person in his profession in 800 years to be incarcerated for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Crime

On Monday 6 August 2007 Hyman was convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice. Hyman had been representing a divorced woman fighting for custody of her four-year-old daughter when he tried to falsely incriminate the girl's father. The father, Simon Eades, was applying for increased access to his child. Hyman had crafted and sent a fraudulent email to the father which appeared to be from a charity campaigning for fathers' rights and whose content appeared to support the father's claim that he should be granted greater access to his daughter. When Eades presented the email in court, Hyman accused him of forgery. Eades' own detective work attempting to clear his name led ultimately to the arrest of Hyman.

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footage from a computer shop proved that Hyman had sent the email and thus had attempted to falsely incriminate Eades. On 19 September 2007 Hyman was jailed for 12 months at

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, and ordered to pay £3,000 compensation to his victim. He was released a few days before Christmas 2007 after serving just over two months of his sentence. In November 2008 Hyman was permanently

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by the

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. At his trial, Hyman, who had committed his crime in the family court, produced a character reference from his friend, Sir Mark Potter, who was the head of the family division of UK justice. A complaint against Sir Mark Potter in this regard was investigated by the Office of Judicial Complaints.

Work

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Hyman produced three new radio series of

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'' in 2003 and 2004, with Helen Chattwell and

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.Production Diary
by Hyman and

on the BBC Radio 4 website He also acted as Executive Producer of the

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programme presented by

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called ''Unreliable Evidence'' until 2006. Hyman has written scripts for

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.City University Law Society
page from 2006 regarding a speaking engagement of Hyman's.

References

External links

City University Law Society:
claiming that Hyman wrote speeches for UK Premier

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List of Hyman's radio productionsBBC video
re conviction.
Hyman BroadcastingPiece by Hyman about Hitchhiker's Guide for BBC Radio 4
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