{UAH} GEORGE OKELLO YOU GOT MAIL.

George Okello;

Recently i had conversation with a friend who is UK based and he said at the heart of this joint enterprise reversal is the lack of room and cost of looking after prisoners. Is it true. Here is a case i thought you will have to interpret for us lay men. 

Could you suggest to United Kingdom government that Uganda government can rent them space at Luzira for their prisoners at a fraction of the cost. Now that the war in Somalia is not paying, south Sudan is silence, there is need for new source of foreign currency.

First 'joint enterprise' defendants walk free after landmark ruling: Two men accused of murder now have 'no case to answer' because they did not strike the fatal blow

• Supreme Court rule 'joint enterprise' 'wrongly interpreted ' since 1984 
• Convicted killer Ameen Jogee given right to appeal in landmark decision 
• Meanwhile two men accused of stabbing to death 24-year-old Ahmed Ahmed were told they have 'no case to answer' following ruling
• Could not be reported until the conclusion of the Old Bailey trial of other co-defendants involved in the same case

By AMANDA WILLIAMS 

PUBLISHED: 16:22, 7 March 2016 | UPDATED: 17:07, 7 March 2016

 
 
 
 
 

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Charges have been thrown out against two young men accused of stabbing to death Ahmed Ahmed (pictured) following the shock joint enterprise ruling

The first defendants in a murder trial have walked free following the shock ruling that joint enterprise law has been wrongly interpreted for 30 years.

Last month, the Supreme Court - Britain's highest court - ruled the law had been wrongly interpreted since 1984 over co-defendants in murder cases who did not strike the killer blow. 

The court granted Ameen Jogee, 24, the right to appeal his conviction for murdering policeman Paul Fyfe, 47, alongside his friend Mohammed Hirsi in 2011.

The same day, Thursday February 18, defence lawyers at the Old Bailey applied for charges to be thrown out in the case of two young men accused of stabbing to death 24-year-old Ahmed Ahmed in Plumstead.

The bid by Khalid Hashi, 23, and Hamza Dodi, 24, was unopposed by the Crown Prosecution Service which took into account the Ameen Jogee ruling immediately after it was given. 

The following day, Judge Paul Worsley ruled that the pair had no case to answer and they were formally acquitted in front of the jury on Monday February 22.

The fallout from the landmark Jogee ruling could not be reported until the conclusion of the Old Bailey trial of other co-defendants involved in the Plumstead murder. 

Today, Osman Musa Mohamed, 20, was convicted of Mr Ahmed's murder. He has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years.

Hussein Roble, 18, from the Woolwich area of south London, was cleared of the same charge.

The court had heard how Mr Ahmed was knifed repeatedly in the leg when he walked out of the block of flats where he lived in Plumstead on August 10 last year.

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Last month, the Supreme Court - Britain's highest court - ruled the joint enterprise law had been wrongly interpreted since 1984 over co-defendants in murder cases who did not strike the killer blow

The court heard that the killers had lain in wait outside, having forced Mr Ahmed's friend Monzir Mohamed to go to the door.

The court heard how Mr Ahmed was seen by a witness to come downstairs and push the door release button as if he was going outside to speak to them.

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