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Teacher cleared of rape too late:

A teacher who died in prison after being convicted of raping one of his pupils has been posthumously cleared by the Court of Appeal.

This week, campaigners described the case as one of the worst miscarriages of justice they had seen after the Court of Appeal in London quashed his conviction.

"This is an extreme and tragic illustration of the consequences of malicious allegations and underlines the need for these new procedures."

Mr Gee?s 88-year-old mother, Molly, awarded £62,493 costs by the court, said the case should be a warning to other teachers.

"It all boiled down to one girl?s word against his, and the jury believed her," she said.

His conviction was eventually quashed when his mother alerted the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which asked a leading psychiatrist to report on his accuser. The study cast doubt on her mental state. It also emerged that the girl, now 26, made similar allegations against another man, whose conviction was quashed earlier this year.