A man convicted of a chef's murder has been freed on bail after the prosecution said it would not oppose his appeal against the conviction.
Sam Hallam was 18 when he was jailed for life in 2005 for killing Essayas Kassahun, 21, in Clerkenwell, London, in a gang attack in October 2004.
Earlier, Court of Appeal judges heard Hallam, 24, was the victim of a "serious miscarriage of justice"....
Hallam's QC Henry Blaxland told the court that his client had been convicted following:
"a combination of manifestly unreliable identification evidence
the apparent failure of his own alibi
failure by police properly to investigate his alibi
non-disclosure by the prosecution of material that could have supported his case"....
Hallam's previous attempt at appealing against his conviction was dismissed in March 2007, following which he applied to the CCRC to review his case in February 2008.
