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The Court of Appeal held the caution statement was substantially compliant, amounted to a confession, and was corroborated, but quashed the attempted-suicide conviction.
Court of Appeal of Tanzania partly allowed the appeal, upholding armed robbery and grievous harm convictions but quashing the attempted suicide conviction.
The prosecution failed to discharge its burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt due to inconsistencies in the evidence of PW3 and failure to call corroborative witnesses. The accused's version was reasonably consistent and credible, creating sufficient doubt. The accused is entitled to acquittal.
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The appeal succeeded in part: the attempted suicide conviction was upheld, but the public servant theft conviction was quashed for insufficient evidence.
The High Court upheld the attempted suicide conviction but quashed the theft conviction, finding the evidence of loss and theft too unclear to sustain the second count.
The High Court partly allowed a criminal appeal, quashing an explosives conviction for evidentiary flaws and replacing an attempted-suicide prison term with absolute discharge.
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