US President Donald Trump has stood by his comments about five men who were wrongly convicted for the brutal rape of a jogger in Central Park in 1989, saying they had “admitted their guilt”.
Following the arrest of the five teenagers, Mr Trump paid for newspaper adverts calling for the return of the death penalty in the state.
The Central Park Five were exonerated in 2002, after another man confessed.
They say their earlier confessions were a result of police coercion. Read more