A man who pleaded guilty to producing cannabis despite being a victim of human trafficking as a child has had his conviction overturned.
Mr ‘Q’ was trafficked from Vietnam as a child in 2013 for the purposes of forced labour. In April 2017 he was arrested inside a cannabis farm and convicted at Warrington magistrates’ court of cultivating a class B drug and sentenced to 20 months custody.
Now his conviction has been overturned at Liverpool Crown Court following a referral by the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
The CCRC is an independent body set up under the Criminal Appeal Act 1995. It is responsible for independently reviewing suspected and alleged miscarriages of criminal justice in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and funded by the Ministry of Justice.
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