Unsolved - An Alibi for Omar?: Episode 1
Unsolved
Contains some upsetting scenes.
Reporter Bronagh Munro uncovers new evidence that casts doubt on the conviction of a man who has spent 19 years in prison for murder.
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Benguit was finally convicted after three trials. He appealed against his conviction, but this appeal was dismissed. The case was reviewed by the CCRC and referred to the Court of Appeal for a second time but this appeal was also dismissed. In a statement following the airing of
Unsolved, Detective Chief Superintendent Ben Hargreaves, of Dorset Police, said: “Jong-Ok Shin, known as Oki, was a 26-year-old South Korean language student who was making her way home when she was brutally murdered in July 2002 in a sudden and unprovoked attack. “Our investigation into Oki’s murder was thorough, detailed and very complex. We submitted our evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service, which considered there to be sufficient evidence to charge Omar Benguit with Oki’s murder and proceeded with the prosecution. Omar Benguit was unanimously convicted in January 2005 by a jury at Winchester Crown Court of the murder of Jong-Ok Shin. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Omar Benguit was found unanimously guilty of the murder of Jong-Ok Shin in 2005. Benguit, now aged in his late 40s, has had two appeals against his conviction dismissed by the Court of Appeal. But now an investigation which aired yesterday in a BBC Three show claims to have found new evidence that could provide him with an alibi for the Bournemouth crime. In the programme, Unsolved: An Alibi for Omar?, journalist Bronagh Munro also says several prosecution witnesses claim police pressured them to tell lies about Benguit. A fresh application has now been made with the Criminal Case Review Commission (CCRC) for a new appeal, reportedly based on the evidence covered in the show.
Omar Benguit has now spent more than 16 years behind bars for her murder. Benguit faced three trials before he was finally convicted by a jury at Winchester Crown Court in January 2005. He has always maintained his innocence. Two attempts to challenge his conviction were dismissed by Court of Appeal judges, in 2005 and 2014, respectively. Now, as a new BBC Three television show,
Unsolved: An Alibi for Omar?, airs, it has been confirmed that efforts to launch a third appeal have been started.
STABBED IN THE STREET Jong-Ok Shin, 26, known to her friends as Oki, was stabbed three times while walking home in Charminster from a night out on July 12.