Background
Neđo Ajdarić was 52 when he was given an unfair trial, wrongly convicted of three murders, and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
There had been no evidence whatsoever linking Mr Ajdarić to the crime, until a prisoner suffering from emotional instability and histrionic personality disorder said that he had heard Mr Ajdarić and another man talking about it. Despite the existence of obvious inconsistencies in the prisoner’s evidence, the prisoner’s unbalanced mental state, and the lack of any other information linking Mr Ajdarić to the crime, the trial court convicted him.