EX-BARCELONA footballer Dani Alves has gained an attraction towards his February 2024 sexual assault conviction.
The Brazilian worldwide was discovered responsible of raping a 23-year-old lady on the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on December 31, 2022.
He was sentenced to 4 years in jail.
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Alves denied doing something unsuitable throughout his three-day trial and was bailed a yr in the past, pending an attraction.
The Catalunya Excessive Court docket dominated on Friday that there was ‘inadequate proof’ to rule out Alves’ presumption of innocence.
It additionally refers to a ‘lack of reliability’ within the testimony of the complainant.
The court docket commented on a ‘sequence of gaps, inaccuracies, inconsistencies and contradictions of the details, the authorized evaluation and its penalties’.
Alves’ lawyer, Ines Guardiola, stated: “We’re very pleased, justice has been achieved, Alves has been confirmed harmless.”
The participant was in pre-trial detention for 14 months and was launched after paying €1million in bail
The unique conviction thought-about it confirmed that he violently sexually assaulted the ladies.
The ultimate sentence was decrease than these demanded by prosecutors and the sufferer, as Alves had supplied to pay reparations.
