A man who had been serving a life sentence for murder had both his murder and firearm convictions quashed after the Court of Appeal ruled that the prosecution's case rested on unreliable identification evidence that should not have survived a no-case submission.

The appellate court in a recently published judgment set aside Reid's convictions for murder, illegal possession of a firearm, and wounding with intent arising from a fatal shooting in August Town on October 26, 2018, and entered judgments of acquittal on all three counts.

The panel of judges comprising Justice Korna Shelly-Williams, Frank Williams and Vivene Harris found that the trial judge failed to adequately scrutinise the prosecution's sole eyewitness identification before rejecting the defence's no-case submission, rendering the convictions unsafe.