Mohamed Okda has rape conviction quashed on appeal

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Mohamed Okda had his rape conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal on 18 July 2019. The charges arose from an incident at a Dublin city-centre flat on 9 February 2014. Okda had been convicted by a jury and sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment, with the final year suspended, on 23 October 2017. The appeal court ruled that the trial judge’s failure to instruct the jury on the presumption of innocence rendered the trial unsatisfactory and the conviction unsafe. It ordered a retrial, and Okda was remanded in custody to appear before the Central Criminal Court.