JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
A full reading of the entire proceedings that has landed on our desk by way of this appeal demonstrates a sad and unfortunate aspect of the history of the entire case which bordered on what we may with restraint call injustice nearing torture to some of the original suspects and even to those who have landed before us, when one considers the time that was taken to finalize a case that was before the trial Court for the first time on 13th November, 2003 and ended on 29th November, 2011 – just over 8 years when the witnesses that testified for the prosecution were only eleven in number and none gave lengthy evidence. The result was that those who were acquitted at the end of it all – and they were two – only gained Pyrrhic victory as they were released after incarceration for just over eight (8) years and those now before us – the appellants – had to wait for all that time to know their fate. Looking at it all, the only reasons for that scenario were first that Judg…