Arthur Allan Thomas (born 2 January 1938)[1] is a New Zealand man who was granted a Royal Pardon and compensation after being wrongfully convicted of the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in June 1970. Thomas was married and farming a property in the Pukekawa district, south of Auckland before the case. Following the revelation that the crucial evidence against him had been faked, Thomas was pardoned in 1979 and awarded NZ$950,000 in compensation for his 9 years in prison and loss of earnings.[2]
- ^ Wishart, Ian (2010). "chapter 2". Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story. New Zealand: Howling at the Moon Publishing. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-9582401-7-8.
- ^ Report of the Royal Commission to Inquire into the Circumstances of the Convictions of Arthur Allan Thomas for the Murders of David Harvey Crewe and Jeanette Lenore Crewe, 1980 (PDF), p. 120, archived from the original (PDF) on 9 June 2011, retrieved 15 October 2010