Darryl Beamish

Darryl Beamish (born 1941) is a Western Australian man who was wrongfully convicted of wilful murder in 1961 and sentenced to death by hanging. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he was paroled in 1971, albeit he returned to prison for six years after assaulting a young girl while on parole. After six appeals, his murder conviction was finally overturned in 2005. The murder for which Beamish was wrongfully convicted had actually been committed by serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke.

Beamish became a suspect since he had recently pleaded to molesting four young girls and had a history of burglary. He was one of two men to be wrongfully convicted of murders committed by Cooke, the other being John Button. Unlike Beamish, Button was completely innocent of any crime.

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