UB40 Tyler ( Signing Off Album Track 1)

Tyler is a track from UB40 1980 debut album dedicated to Gary Tyler who has been a prisoner in Louisiana since 1975, when he was convicted at age 17 of the 1974 shooting death of a 13yearold white was arrested and charged with the murder of 13 yearold Timothy Weber. His mother Juanita Tyler said that he was beaten by the police in an attempt to make him confess. Other witnesses later told of being intimidated by the was tried as an adult and convicted at trial in 1975 by a Louisiana court. The case was marked by several flaws and alleged lack of experience of his lawyer. The police produced a gun they claimed had been found on the bus, and it later disappeared from the evidence room in the decades following the conviction.