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(1) ANDRE BENNETT (2) AUGUSTUS JOHN V THE QUEEN (2001)

PUBLISHED July 17, 2001
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Confession statements by the defendants had been given involuntarily and should not have been admitted in evidence at their trial. Having so concluded the Court of Appeal of Grenada had been wrong to apply the proviso in the case of one of the defendants but in the case of the other defendant a retrial was appropriate.

PC (Gren) (Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Steyn, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hope, Lord Hutton)

17/07/2001

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