Man’s sex assault conviction quashed as trial juror was related to victim in separate case

The Court of Appeal has quashed a man’s sex assault conviction and directed a retrial, after it transpired that one of the jurors who convicted him was related to his victim in another case.

The jury in the sex assault trial had returned a unanimous verdict of guilty. As the jury members then left the courtroom, two relatives of the convicted man approached his legal team and said that one of the jurors was related to the victim in the defilement case. They had not been present during the trial as it was conducted “in camera”, or behind closed doors.

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