On 27 February, the Court of Appeal upheld the rape conviction and sentence of 10 years' imprisonment imposed on Abdul Basith in a case prosecuted by Max Hardy.
Mr Basith was convicted by a jury in June 2023 of a rape and indecent assault committed in March 1999 when he attacked a woman while purporting to be a minicab driver, he was sentenced in November 2023. DNA from the crime scene was found, in 2020, to be a match for his DNA following an unrelated arrest.
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