The Court of Ap­peal has quashed a 43-year-old de­liv­ery dri­ver's con­vic­tion for steal­ing $7,500 from his em­ploy­er.Dur­ing a hear­ing of the ap­peal last Thurs­day, ap­pel­late judges Paula Mae Weekes and Al­ice Yorke Soo-Hon de­cid­ed to quash the con­vic­tion and sen­tence of An­drew Seesa­hai af­ter his at­tor­neys and state pros­e­cu­tors agreed the case against him was a weak one.

Seesa­hai's at­tor­ney Daniel Khan ad­vanced four grounds in his ap­peal. Khan ar­gued that the mag­is­trate who con­vict­ed Seesa­hai did not con­sid­er his good char­ac­ter, con­sid­ered il­le­gal hearsay ev­i­dence and ap­plied a wrong test when she was ad­mit­ting Seesa­hai's wit­ness state­ment and al­so that there was ma­te­r­i­al non-dis­clo­sure in the case.Seesa­hai, of Wall Street, Madras Road, Cunu­pia, was con­vict­ed be­fore Mag­is­trate Mar­cia Mur­ray in the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates Court on March 21 last year.

He was sen­tenced to nine months in prison with hard labour.In his tri­al, the State led ev­i­dence that on Ju­ly 18, 2007, Seesa­hai de­liv­ered cas­es of soft drink to a busi­ness and was giv­en the mon­ey as pay­ment, but did not hand over the mon­ey to his em­ploy­er, RJR Dis­trib­u­tors Ltd, of Vi­o­let Dri­ve, Freeport.In his de­fence, Seesa­hai ad­mit­ted he re­ceived the mon­ey but said he was robbed while re­turn­ing to his em­ploy­er's of­fices.