Chidi Okwechime challenges rape convictions, sentence in ACT Court of Appeal

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Updated March 2 2023 - 8:52pm, first published 1:20pm
Convicted rapist Chidi Okwechime. Picture by Blake Foden
Convicted rapist Chidi Okwechime. Picture by Blake Foden

Jurors returned "unreasonable" guilty verdicts in the trial of a "deranged animal", whose shock at an influencer's rape claim should have created doubt about his guilt, a court has been told.

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Blake Foden was a court reporter at The Canberra Times.

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