60-year-old man has rape conviction quashed

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A 60-year-old man’s rape conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal on 4 February 2020, with a retrial ordered. He had been sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to nine years in prison, with the final three-and-a-half years suspended, on 30 July 2018.

The appeal court ruled that comments describing the case as containing a “lot of detail” weakened the jury’s warning about the delay in reporting the alleged historic offence. The man had denied raping his sister-in-law, who was aged 15 at the time.