Waqar Ahmed
Years in prison:
2
Year of crime:
2005
Year conviction was overturned:
2008
Afzal and Azhil Khan and Waqar Ahmed were convicted of the murder of Isaiah Young-Sam primarily based on confessions. It was discovered that a secret recording of one of the men encouraging the other to confess had not been disclosed to the defence. As a result, the evidnece had been misused and the conviction was unsafe. A retrial was ordered in which the men were found to be not guilty.
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< Back to Case Search < Back to Overview Graph- Offence: Murder
- Jurisdiction: England & Wales
- County: West Midlands
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Gender: M
- Years in prison: 2
- Offence convicted of: Murder
- Year of crime: 2005
- Year of initial conviction: 2006
- Year conviction was overturned: 2008
- Age when imprisoned: 26
- CCRC Referral: N
- Tried with others: Y
- Link to full case: Not available
- Type of fresh evidence at appeal: Evidence undermining the reliability of a confession
- Compensation: Unknown
- Crown argued case at CofA: Unknown
- Retrial: Yes
- Previous appeals: Unknown