The State Government will make a compensation payment in the sum of $1.3 million to Gene Gibson.
Gibson is a young indigenous man from the remote community of Kiwirrkurra, who was convicted on his plea of guilty to manslaughter of Joshua Warneke in Broome in 2010.
After Gibson had been sentenced, the police investigation into the death of Warneke was the subject of three reviews.
The police investigation which led to the prosecution and conviction of Gibson for manslaughter was found to be flawed.
Gibson served about four years and eight months in prison before the Court of Appeal set aside that conviction and acquitted him of the charge in April last year.
The total allocation for the payment is $1.5 million.
$1.3 million will be paid into a trust to be administered by the Public Trustee, and an additional $200,000 will be set aside for management fees to be incurred by the Public Trustee in the administration of that trust.