[2011] UKSC 59

Two men engaged in a gunfight against each other had a common intention to shoot and be shot at. Where one of the gunmen accidentally shot and killed a passer-by, the intended target was guilty of the passer-by's murder, either by virtue of transferred malice, the target having aided and abetted his own attempted murder, or as a principal, having been a direct participant engaged by agreement in unlawful violence.

SC (Lord Phillips (President), Lord Brown JSC, Lord Judge JSC, Lord Kerr JSC, Lord Clarke JSC, Lord Dyson JSC, Lord Wilson JSC)

14/12/2011