Key facts
- Ahmed Tommouhi will receive €2.5 million in compensation from Spain.
- Tommouhi spent 15 years in prison for rapes he did not commit.
- Spain's Supreme Court ruled there was a judicial error in his original trial.
- Tommouhi was originally jailed for 24 years for two rapes and one robbery.
- One of the victims identified Tommouhi as not being the attacker.
A Moroccan man, Ahmed Tommouhi, who spent 15 years in prison for rapes he did not commit, is to be awarded €2.5 million ($2.87 million) in compensation by Spain's Supreme Court. Tommouhi, 75, had been jailed for 24 years for two rapes and one count of robbery in Catalonia in 1991.