Man diagnosed with schizophrenia 12 years after murdering infant son has conviction quashed

A man found guilty of murdering his infant son 17 years ago has had his conviction quashed on grounds that his recent diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia was new evidence, rendering his conviction unsafe.

Yusuf Ali Abdi, with a last address at The Elms, College Road, Clane, Co Kildare, stood trial in 2003 for the murder of his son, Nathan Baraka Andrew Ali, in an apartment at that address on April 17, 2001.