A businessman who was unfairly imprisoned for 19 years for a crime prosecutors were unable to establish that he committed has been cleared and released by the Court of Appeal.
The court unanimously decided that there was no evidence linking him to the crime and that the trial judge had misinterpreted the evidence presented to her stating that the accused had a guilty plea, when according to her own records, the accused had entered a not guilty plea, which warranted a full trial.
Businessman Yaw Appiah faced trial at the High Court together with five others for a robbery that happened in 2006 at Teshie Nungua.
The victims Richard Kwakye and his wife Theresa Kwakye and their children were returning home after seeing off a relative at the Airport when the robbery occurred.
