The Court of Appeal has acquitted and discharged a businessman who wrongfully spent 19 years in jail for a crime prosecutors failed to prove he committed.
The court unanimously ruled that no evidence connected him to the crime and that the trial judge completely misapprehended the evidence before her including saying the accused had pleaded guilty to the crime when her own records showed the accused had pleaded not guilty resulting in a full trial.
Businessman Yaw Appiah faced trial at the High Court together with five others for a robbery that took place in 2006 at Teshie Nungua.
One 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.
