Shah Nawaz
Year of crime:
1993
Year conviction was overturned:
2007
The conviction was referred to by the CCRC in August 2005. The conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal in January 2007.
< Back to Case Search < Back to Overview Graph- Offence: Drugs offences
- Jurisdiction: England & Wales
- County: West Midlands
- Gender: M
- Offence convicted of: Conspiracy to evade the prohibition upon importation of a controlled drug of Class A (heroin)
- Year of crime: 1993
- Year of initial conviction: 1994
- Year conviction was overturned: 2007
- CCRC Referral: Y
- Post Office Case: N
- Tried with others: Yes (1)
- Link to full case: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2007/307.html
- Crown argued case at CofA: No
- Retrial: N
- Previous appeals: Two applications made prior to trial; The first one was an application to stay the proceedings and the second was to exclude key witness evidence. Both of them failed.