Acquitted of murder after 18 years in jail

Poland’s supreme court has acquitted a man who had served 18 years in prison for the rape and murder of a teenager that the judges now say he could not have committed.

The case of Tomasz Komenda has shocked the nation, with Poland’s right-wing government highlighting the case as an example of what it says is a justice system requiring deep reform.

Mr komenda ,42, left prison after prosecutors concluded he could not have committed the crime. The review had been ordered at the request of the parents of the 15-year-old victim, who was killed during a 1997 New Year party.