[2007] EWCA Crim 1846

An appeal against conviction for manslaughter was allowed where there was no causal link between the assaults of the appellant on the victim prior to the appellant's departure from the scene and the violence inflicted by the co-defendants on the victim following the appellant's departure. The final act of drowning the victim was a new and intervening act in the chain of events and was fundamentally different to what the appellant had contemplated.

CA (Crim Div) (Hooper LJ, Burton J, Flaux J)

23/07/2007