New trial after NSW sex conviction quashed A NSW man jailed for raping his stepdaughter has had his conviction quashed by an appeal court after fresh video evidence came to light in which she appeared "affectionate" towards him at a wedding 20 years later. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was jailed for at least two years in February last year for having "carnal knowledge" of his stepdaughter between 1974 and 1975. The woman alleged the man regularly touched her in her bed at night and raped her when she was aged nine. The man was found guilty at a judge-alone trial and sentenced to a maximum four and a half years' imprisonment. But his conviction was quashed and a fresh trial ordered in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal this week after the three-judge panel found fresh video evidence of the man and his stepdaughter together at a family wedding in 1995 "rested uneasily" with her earlier accounts that she was nervous about seeing him that day. In the wedding video footage which emerged after the man was sentenced, the woman could be seen rubbing or patting the man's upper back. In another clip, the woman put her arm around the man's shoulder and her hand on his chest before grabbing his excess neck skin "in an affectionate manner" whilst posing for photos, the judgment said. In a statement to the appeal court, the woman said the photographer had told her to put her hand on the man's chest. It made me feel uncomfortable. You can even see me jokingly trying to strangle him and I had to smile because it was (my sister's wedding) day," she said. But the judges found that if the material had been available at the man's trial and considered along with the other evidence, "It is likely that a reasonable doubt would have been entertained about (his) guilt." " (The video clips) were clearly capable of demonstrating that, as at the time of the wedding, (the woman) harboured no ill will or resentment towards the (man)," the judgment said. To the contrary they depict spontaneous gestures by her towards him which are capable of suggesting a degree of affection towards him. The judges found the timing of the wedding clip was also significant, as it was captured a few months before a family dispute erupted over a grandmother's will. The man claimed the woman made the allegations against him in the wake of that dispute. "The fact that (the woman) appears on the video to be favourably disposed towards the complainant in February 1995 is capable of providing significant support for the contention that the origins of the allegations against him arose after the wedding and out of that dispute," the judges said.