Master's student freed after two years in jail for rape he did not commit

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“The magistrate’s overall approach to her evaluation of the evidence, and particularly the credibility findings in favour of the state witnesses, clearly overlooked the material shortcomings and discrepancies in their evidence and ... fell short of the ...

Former assistant lecturer Osiphesona Ngcanga, of East London, is free after spending two years in jail.An Mdantsane man who was jailed for eight years for rape walked out of St Alban’s Prison in Port Elizabeth recently after spending two years inside for a crime he did not commit.

But on January 14, Makhanda High Court judges Sunil Rugunanan and Buyiswa Majiki upheld his appeal and overturned Bara’s judgment.In their judgment, they said Ngcanga and the woman had been seen by one of six witnesses dancing together, laughing, flirting, kissing and talking to each other outside a party attended by 17 people, many of them students.

The judges also found that the evidence of a further two state witnesses was unreliable and inconsistent.

 

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Yikes!

HermanMashaba I guess this would be a dead innocent guy under your preferred policy?

Why do u post his pic wearing prison uniform, is he now not a free man

What is going to be done about the accuser,is she going to go scot-free?If so why.And it's hi -time the judicial system also deal decisively with lazy investigators.This is totally unexceptionable.

Some of the opposite gender!! I hope he lives his life to the fullest and i hope no everyone unblocks him from what he was doing or is going to do

Sue the living hell out of them!

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