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An Indigenous man who served almost five years in jail after being wrongfully convicted of manslaughter has been awarded a $1.3 million payout by the Western Australian government.

Gene Gibson, from the remote WA community of Kiwirrkurra, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years’ prison in 2014 after he admitted to causing the death of Josh Warneke, 21, in Broome, but claimed on appeal that he was not provided with an interpreter and did not “understand what was going on” due to a cognitive impairment as police pressured him to plead guilty. Warneke’s mother, Ingrid Bishop, campaigned for Gibson’s release since 2014 in the belief that he was innocent of her son’s death …

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The Saturday Paper