Three years ago, a Nigerian facing the death penalty and his legal team made legal history in Singapore, by successfully persuading the Court of Appeal to reopen a concluded criminal appeal and to review its own decision for the first time.

This was done on the basis that there was fresh psychiatric evidence suggesting that the court had occasioned a miscarriage of justice, by wrongly reversing the acquittal of 35-year-old Ilechukwu Uchechukwu Chukwudi on a capital charge of drug trafficking upon the Prosecution’s appeal.