A 30-year delay on the part of a complainant did not render an offender’s convictions for indecent assault, indecency with a child, and rape unsafe as the judge had sufficiently dealt with any prejudice to the offender in his summing up and directions to the jury and there had been other evidence that supported the […]
A judge’s directions to a jury regarding the independence of evidence, the cross-admissibility of evidence over various counts and the danger of complaints of historic abuse were all sufficient and did not either individually or collectively render a defendant’s conviction for sexual offences unsafe.
A judge had been right in refusing to order the further disclosure of diaries kept by a complainant who had alleged indecent assault by her mother and step-father where the prosecution had stated in open court that they contained no reference to the allegations made. What was important to the defence was the admitted absence […]
