High Court Judge, Justice Salesi Temo acquitted a 51-year old Labasa man of a rape charge.
Judge Temo says after hearing both the 34-year-old complainant and the accused evidence, he sees the prosecution did not do enough to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt.
According to the prosecution case, the 51-year-old man had been on phone contact since February last year where the accused promised to take the woman to the temple to pray for her as she was sick.
On the 17th of June last year the two met in a hotel in Labasa.
The accused admitted meeting the woman in the hotel but denied raping her.
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