On 12 April 2017, Gene Gibson, an illiterate and mentally impaired 25-year-old Aboriginal man, was released from prison by an appeals court after unjustly serving five years of a manslaughter sentence. Gibson, who was 20 when charged with a two-year-old unsolved murder, was interviewed for many hours by two junior detectives without benefit of an interpreter or legal counsel, which ultimately led to a fake confession and wrongful conviction. Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan apologised for the investigative failure, but disclosed the three officers "had not accepted blame and would now face an internal disciplinary process". Taser misuse incidents Academic and wife and subsequent legal case In November 2008, an academic and his wife were tasered by police during an arrest outside a hotel in Fremantle and charged with obstructing a public officer. In 2010 both charges were dismissed, after a magistrate described evidence given by one of the arresting police officers as "extremely evasive", "imprecise" and "unconvincing". The couple's lengthy requests for investigation and retribution were unsuccessful, so in December 2016, they successfully sued and were awarded over $1 million in damages. "Hooliganism" in police station Two Rockingham senior police officers were sacked in 2010 for using Tasers on their colleagues during hooligan-style antics at the station over 18 months. Repeated tasering of Aboriginal man on two occasions In September 2010 a video was released of an event in which numerous police officers tasered a man 14 times inside a WA police station. The incident, which occurred in August 2008, sparked worldwide publicity and renewed debate about the inclusion of tasers in the police force and officers' excessive use of it. In April 2012, the state's Corruption and Crime Commission made several misconduct findings, recommended charges and said the policemen used "undue and excessive" force. The same man had also been tasered 11 times on 6 September 2008 by Emergency Support Group officers from the Department of Corrective Services while being removed from a cell in the Perth Watch House. In April 2013, it was reported that two senior officers were to be tried on criminal charges over the first incident. At a hearing on 22 January 2014, the two officers were fined and given suspended jail terms for unlawful assault. Person seated in vehicle In March 2018, Grantley James Keenan, a senior constable with WA Police was suspended for tasering a man seated at the wheel of his vehicle