December 01, 2005

Wall was victim of a miscarriage of justice

IRELAND
RTE News

01 December 2005 19:21
The Court of Criminal Appeal has certified that the former nun Nora Wall, who was wrongly convicted of rape, has been the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns said the court was satisfied that newly discovered facts showed that there had been a miscarriage in her case.

Earlier, it was revealed that a young woman was lying when she gave an eyewitness account under oath in 1999 of seeing Ms Wall rape a 10-year-old girl.

Posted by kshaw at December 1, 2005 02:08 PM