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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent

‘I need to get out there’: wrongfully identified in drill music video and jailed, he now wants to study law

Ade Adedeji: he stands in front of a building at De Montfort University in Leicester with tall glass windows, with a bush and pink flowers in the foreground; he wears a white T-shirt and pale blue tracksuit.
Ade Adedeji, 21, had his conviction quashed in January after new evidence showed he was wrongfully identified in a drill music video. Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Guardian

On his release from prison earlier this year, after serving three years for a crime he didn’t commit, 21-year-old Ade Adedeji had only one thing on his mind – a trip to Burger King.

“The first thing I wanted to do was eat a Burger King. And hug my family, of course,” he said. “I thought I was getting out in 2027, so I had planned out the first three days. But then it happened so unexpectedly, and everything was just mad.”

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