[2015]DLSC3046 • March 18, 2015 • Supreme Court •
RICHARD BANOUSIN vs. THE REPUBLIC
The appellant, a teacher at Kanton Senior High School, was accused of raping a student, Rashida Kanton Ibrahim, after inviting her to his bungalow to collect seized pullovers. The complainant alleged that the appellant forcibly had sexual intercourse with her without consent. The appellant denied the allegations throughout the proceedings.
read moreVICTOR DOTSE JSC: On the 18th day of March 2015, this court by a unanimous decision allowed the appeal herein against the decision of the Court of Appeal dated 28/2/2013 and set aside the conviction and sentence imposed on the appellant by the said Court of Appeal judgment and accordingly acquitted and discharged him of his conviction for attempted rape and sentence of 7 years. We however reserved our reasons for the said decision which we indicated would be filed on or by the 2nd day of April 2015. We now proceed to give our reasons for our said decision as follows: We begin this opinion by an observation of the times and life of Sir Isaac Newton, that great 17th Century English Mathematician and Philosopher who has given the world some natural laws of physics which apply to human beings, just as they apply to the movement of bodies in the universe. And we are sure everyone isfamiliar with one of these laws, and that is, “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.....