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Double jeopardy case: Wendell Baker guilty of rape Double jeopardy case: Wendell Baker guilty of rape
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Londoner Wendell Baker has been found guilty of raping a pensioner in her bedroom after second trial for same offence, under the double jeopardy law. A man has been found guilty of raping a pensioner in her bedroom, under the amended double jeopardy law.
At the Old Bailey, Baker, of Walthamstow, east London, denied raping Hazel Backwell, then 66, at her home in Stratford, east London, in 1997. Wendell Baker, 56, of Walthamstow, east London, had denied raping Hazel Backwell, then 66, at her home in Stratford, east London, in 1997.
In 1999 a judge decided the case could not proceed for legal reasons so Mr Baker, 56, was found not guilty. In 1999 a judge decided the case could not proceed for legal reasons and Baker was found not guilty.
A change in the law in 2005 allowed a retrial in certain circumstances. A legal change in 2005 allowed retrials in certain circumstances and a new hearing took place at the Old Bailey.
He will will be sentenced on Friday. Baker will be sentenced on Friday. The judge said he would consider a life sentence.
The jury found Baker guilty after deliberating for just over an hour.
Baker was acquitted of raping Ms Backwell, who died in 2002, when the first trial judge ruled DNA evidence had not been collected correctly and could not be used.