In March 2020 our client was arrested and charged with several sex offences brought by his wife that were alleged to have occurred during their marriage.
By the time he engaged us, he had spent over 18 months in custody on remand, unable to secure his release on bail and despite an appeal to the Supreme Court by his former solicitors. We were able to re-agitate the issue of bail by demonstrating a change in circumstances and he was finally granted bail by the District Court.
Our client believed that his wife was motivated to make false allegations to justify a (second) divorce to her religious parents.
Police first became involved when the complainant attended her local police station and told the police that our client had barricaded her family in their family home and that he was threatening them with harm. When police arrived at the home, they found nobody to be in any danger, with body worn camera footage revealing police they queried whether they were at the right house. This was merely one example of embellishments that riddled the complainant’s evidence in court and which we were able to contradict with evidence of other witnesses, including the prosecution’s own.
After a seven day trial, the jury deliberated for less than 30 minutes to deliver unanimous verdicts of not guilty for both counts on the indictment.
