[2008] EWCA Crim 306

In the circumstances, the offender's voluntary absence from her trial was not absence of such a proportion so as to deprive her of the opportunity to fully participate in the trial. Accordingly, the offender's conviction for conspiracy to facilitate the commission of a breach of United Kingdom immigration law was safe.

CA (Crim Div) (Leveson J, Hedley J, Common Serjeant)

05/02/2008