[2012] EWCA Crim 2749

The convictions of two men for offences including robbery and violent disorder, which depended on the evidence of anonymous witnesses, were quashed where there was evidence available which provided grounds for believing that those witnesses might have had a motive for incriminating the defendants they purported to recognise and where the judge had failed to allude to that evidence, rendering the trials unfair.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Judge LCJ, Fulford J, Bean J)

18/12/2012