The Court of Appeal in Accra has acquitted and discharged Yaw Asante Agyekum, who was convicted in 2002 as an alleged accomplice of Ghana's most notorious armed robber, Ataa Ayi.
Agyekum had served 23 years of a 35-year sentence for conspiracy to commit robbery before the court ruled that he had been wrongfully convicted.
The three-member panel of justices unanimously held that the prosecution failed to prove Agyekum's involvement beyond reasonable doubt and that the evidence against him was circumstantial at best.
The acquittal brings closure to a decades-long battle for justice.
