Wrongly imprisoned David Dougherty swears off the boozeFAIRFAX MEDIA David Dougherty, pictured at an earlier court appearance, was wrongly convicted of raping a child. A man once wrongly imprisoned for rape is off alcohol – a common factor in the rest of his offending – after drunkenly assaulting a police officer. But David Dougherty's abstinence from the booze is because of ill-health, not treatment programmes. Dougherty, 49, is best known for being wrongly convicted of the rape of an 11-year-old girl. READ MORE:* Falsely imprisoned: David Dougherty's story* Wrongly imprisoned man David Dougherty admits assaulting police officer* Meet NZ's most difficult prisonerDougherty has been in an out of court since, with many of his crimes involving theft – largely because his compensation money was gone within nine years – and other alcohol-fuelled incidents.

Source: Stuff March 14, 2017 03:55 UTC