A MAN has successfully argued his own appeal against a 25-year sentence for raping a woman at gunpoint and robbing her of almost $200 after burglarising her West Bay Street home.

Oscar Ingraham, who was not represented by an attorney, was successful in convincing the appellate court that he was not the one who the Crown claimed was behind the October 28, 2011 incident.

The appellate tribunal of Justices Stella Crane-Scott, Roy Jones and Milton Evans quashed both his conviction and 25-year sentence. No retrial was ordered.

During his appeal, Ingraham maintained the DNA report the Crown used in support of its case was inconclusive and contained no evidence that linked him to the crime. And for that reason, he successfully asserted the case should have never gone to a jury but ended at the no-case submission stage.

This is not the first conviction Ingraham has had overturned.

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