High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Andrew Evans case concerns the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of Andrew Evans, an English soldier from Longton, Staffordshire, who served 25 years in custody after confessing to the 1972 murder of Judith Roberts, a 14-year-old schoolgirl from nearby Tamworth. Evans was stationed at Whittington Barracks near Lichfield – an army base in close proximity to Tamworth – when Judith was dragged from her bicycle and battered to death in June 1972, and later confessed to the crime after seeing the girl`s face in a dream.