Former Sheffield United striker Ched Evans is set to have his conviction for raping a 19-year-old woman reviewed by the Court of Appeal in London on March 22.
Evans, 27, was jailed in April 2012 after being found guilty of the rape at a hotel in Rhyl, north Wales, on May 29, 2011. He was released from prison in 2014 after serving half of a five-year sentence .
The case has been referred by to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC, which investigates possible miscarriages of justice and announced last October that new evidence had emerged in the case.
In a statement released following the announcement last year, CCRC chair Richard Foster said: The decision of the commission is not a judgment on guilt or innocence in relation to Ched E…