Mr EJ

Mr EJ was convicted in February 2008 of rape and sexual activity with a child. Mr EJ received a sentence of imprisonment for public protection with a minimum term of four years.

Mr EJ was refused leave to appeal against his conviction and applied to the CCRC in October 2009.

During review, the CCRC obtained new evidence that on two separate occasions, one of the complainants had made allegations of rape which she later accepted were false allegations. There was, however, new expert forensic evidence indicating that Mr EJ had engaged in sexual activity with that complainant.

The CCRC concluded that there was a real possibility the Court of Appeal would find that Mr EJ’s conviction for rape was unsafe and would overturn that conviction and substitute it with a conviction for unlawful sexual activity with a child.

The CCRC referred the conviction in June 2014.

The Court of Appeal upheld the conviction in March 2016.