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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
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Blake Foden

'Shock' at influencer's rape claim creates doubt about guilt, appeal told

Convicted rapist Chidi Okwechime. Picture by Blake Foden

Jurors returned "unreasonable" guilty verdicts in the trial of a "deranged animal", whose shock at an influencer's rape claim should have created doubt about his guilt, a court has been told.

Chidi Okwechime, a Conder construction worker linked to the Comanchero bikie gang, was sentenced in 2022 to more than five years behind bars for raping and choking a social media star in Coombs.

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