[2006] EWCA Crim 955

In the circumstances, it was necessary and expedient in the interests of justice to admit fresh evidence of mental illness that was not relied on at trial and that pointed to a new defence of diminished responsibility. In view of the fresh evidence a conviction for murder was quashed and a verdict of manslaughter was substituted.

CA (Crim Div) (Rix LJ, Mackay J, Judge Goddard QC)

15/05/2006