Stephen 'Rossi' Walsh has indecent assault conviction quashed

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Stephen 'Rossi' Walsh’s indecent assault conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal on 8 December 2022, after it found adverse pre-trial coverage impaired his fair-trial rights.

The conviction related to the alleged indecent assault of a seven-year-old girl in 1988. The prosecution alleged two assaults between 1 May and 30 September that year.

The court found that newspaper coverage published before the 2010 trial was highly egregious and that the jury had not received an adequate warning about it.