[2010] EWCA Crim 308
Although the judge had come close to usurping the functions of the jury in his summing up when giving a character direction, the offenders' convictions for robbery, kidnapping, fraud and assault occasioning actual bodily harm were safe given the strength of all the evidence against them.
CA (Crim Div) (Hooper LJ, Mackay J, Griffith Williams J)
24/02/2010