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Court of Appeal allows KDF to appeal acquittal of former naval "deserters"

The Court of Appeal has allowed the State to appeal the acquittal of 26 former Navy soldiers by the High Court in 2015 a year after they were convicted by a court martial to life in prison for desertion.

The former soldiers have been contesting the State’s intention to appeal, arguing that the law it seeks to depend on was not in existence when they were freed.

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