The court considered issues relating to the impact of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 s.28 and the pre-recorded cross-examination of vulnerable child witnesses, and provided guidance regarding best practice for trial judges and advocates.
An offender’s conviction for offences of sexual acitivity with a child was not rendered unsafe by the judge’s failure, after allowing a video recording of the complainant’s evidence-in-chief to be replayed to the jury when they had retired to consider their verdict, to expressly warn the jury against giving the replay video evidence a disproportionate […]
A sentence of 14 months’ imprisonment was excessive for an offence of voyeurism and was substituted by a sentence of nine months’ imprisonment, where the appellant, the manager of a gym, had abused his position of trust by secretly recording videotape of women showering or using sun beds.
