CCRC Refer Sexual Assault Conviction of Ahmed Mohammed

The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the sexual assault conviction of Ahmed Mohammed.In February 2004, at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court, Mr Mohammed was convicted of indecently assaulting two women in separate incidents in Tooting, South London, in the summer of 2001. Mr Mohammed denied having anything to do with the indecent assaults. The central issue in proceedings against Mr Mohammed was whether or not he had been correctly identified as the attacker.

In 2002, a jury decided that, because of mental health issues, Mr Mohammed was not fit to plead in a full criminal trial. A trial of the facts was therefore held in which Mr Mohammed played no active part. In spite of alibi testimony from a member of Mr Mohammed’s family, the jury in the trial of the facts concluded that he had carried out the indecent assaults. The judge made a hospital order, with restrictions under s41 of the Mental Health Act 1983. The effect of that order was to have Mr Mohammed detained in hospital. His name was also added indefinitely to the Sex Offenders Register.

Read more: CCRC, https://is.gd/1kmtbJ