[2009] EWCA Crim 2294

A defendant's conviction for rape was safe where there was no proper evidential basis for alleging that the complainant's allegations of an unrelated sexual assault were false. If evidence of that allegation had been before the jury it would not have been reasonably capable of leading to a different verdict as there had, in any event, been a strong case against the defendant.

CA (Crim Div) (Stanley Burnton LJ, Penry-Davey J, Sharpe J)

09/11/2009