Top Rape Defence Barrister

Although a judge had erred in not distinguishing between contemporaneous evidence and that which occurred some years after the relevant events, and in directing that a complainant’s evidence of distress could be corroborative of an allegation of indecent assault, any misdirections were immaterial and could not affect the safety of the appellant’s conviction.

A conviction was quashed where credibility had been the key issue in a sexual offences case and the judge had given an unclear good character direction that was tantamount to a bad character direction.