Retrial ordered in high-profile rape case
A former executive convicted of raping a woman he picked up on the side of the road will face a retrial.
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by Grace Mason
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A FORMER top Cairns executive convicted of raping a Norwegian tourist he picked up on the side of the road will face a retrial after a court ruled he had suffered a "miscarriage of justice" in his original trial.
Alan George Vico, who has subsequently left his almost $290,000 per year job with Ports North, was found guilty in a judge only trial last year of sexually assaulting the young woman in a Cairns motel in September 2018.