Although a judge in a rape trial had not specifically directed the jury that evidence given by witnesses of what the complainant had told them after the incident was not independent evidence of the acts complained of, there had, in the circumstances, been no real risk of the jury assuming that it was.
COMPLAINTS CREDIBILITY CRIMINAL EVIDENCE CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 2003 s.120 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE EVIDENCE FROM WITNESSES TO WHOM COMPLAINT MADE INDEPENDENT NATURE OF COMPLAINANT’S EVIDENCE JURY DIRECTIONS PREVIOUS CONSISTENT STATEMENTS RECENT COMPLAINT s.120(7) SEXUAL OFFENCES VICTIMS
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