A MAN who was sentenced to death for the 2005 chopping death of his former partner has been granted a rare second appeal by the Privy Council, after his first attempt to reach the London-based court was initially refused.

Not only that, attorneys representing Uriah Woods successfully convinced the British law lords to quash the murder conviction against their client.

Woods was convicted in 2015 for the murder of Sandra Miller and sentenced to death by hanging, a sentenced that was later commuted to life in prison. Yesterday, the board quashed that conviction, ruling that Woods did not receive a fair trial because of a serious misdirection to the jury on the law of provocation and the later emergence of significant psychiatric evidence.