Judge raps police investigation and overturns conviction for mugging
A judge found that a man accused of pulling an expensive necklace off an elderly woman, had been wrongly identified. Photo: Shutterstock.
A 24-year-old man who had been sentenced to a 30-month prison term for a snatch-and-grab theft had his conviction overturned on Thursday after a judge ruled that CCTV footage presented as evidence clearly did not actually show him. Ilajsu Seidu had been convicted of snatching a €2000 gold necklace from an 81-year-old woman in September...