Summary
A FORMER professional footballer yesterday became the first person to be convicted of a crime that a jury had already acquitted him of.
Mario Celaire, 31, admitted killing his ex-girlfriend seven years after he was originally found not guilty.See the full content of this document
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Conviction of Acquitted Killer Makes Legal History
The part-time footballer and builder beat 19-year-old Cassandra McDermott to death in November 2001.
But a jury cleared him of both murder and manslaughter in 2002 after he claimed to have left her 'al...See the full content of this document
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