Tonderai Chakwana
Years in prison:
3
Year of crime:
2008
Year conviction was overturned:
2013
Mr Chakwana was convicted of raping a woman during the night after he and a friend had called at her house. He maintained the sex was consensual. The conviction was overturned due to a failure to disclose contradictory evidence given by the victim about her sex life (the prosecution argued she would not have had consensual sex because she was only interested in her boyfriend, but in another statement she had stated that she was in a casual relationship with her boyfriend and sometimes had sex with his friends). This made the conviction unsafe.
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< Back to Case Search < Back to Overview Graph- Offence: Sexual offences
- Jurisdiction: Northern Ireland
- County: Belfast
- Ethnicity: Black
- Gender: M
- Years in prison: 3
- Offence convicted of: Rape
- Year of crime: 2008
- Year of initial conviction: 2009
- Year conviction was overturned: 2013
- Age when imprisoned: 35
- CCRC Referral: Y
- Tried with others: N
- Link to full case: Not available
- Type of fresh evidence at appeal: Evidence relating to the reliability of witness testimony
- Compensation: Unknown
- Crown argued case at CofA: No
- Retrial: No
- Previous appeals: Refused leave to appeal in 2009