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Tale of retrials and missing witness boxes in courtrooms

Failure by a key witness to testify in the presence of the accused person has forced a case concluded in 2014 to a re-trial.

This is after a man who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly committing incest successfully appealed against the conviction and sentencing on the grounds that he did not have a chance to cross-examine the witness.

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