Oh, who is that young sinner...

...is the title of a poem by A. E. Housman, which contains the line "they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair".  Came to mind when I saw the story of a young Scotsman who maintains he was arrested and spent a month in gaol simply because he had red hair, and a shoplifting offence had been reported as being committed by a red-haired lad.  He had an alibi, but the colour of his hair was enough to get him banged up.  Fact stranger than fiction?