A construction worker who served almost four years in prison for a rape he did not commit has a filed a $30million suit against the city.
William McCaffrey, 34, says in court papers that police officers knew he didn't inflict bite wounds on purported victim Biurny Peguero, but that they actually came from a drunken brawl with her girlfriends after a night of club-hopping...
Mr McCaffrey, from the Bronx, alleges that prosecutors 'impugned' his 'truthful evidence' regarding the bites in front of jurors, then sat on Peguero's recantation of her false allegations for two months after learning she had confessed to her priest, the New York Post reports.
In addition, the suit says prosecutors 'continued to oppose McCaffrey's release' despite defence DNA testing that proved one of Peguero's friends, Aurora Pujols, had bitten her.
'As a result of these actions... McCaffrey served at least five additional months in prison before he was finally released on September 1, 2009,' the suit added.