[2013] EWCA Crim 2288

An offender's conviction for assault by penetration of the vagina had not been inconsistent with his acquittal for offences of attempted rape and sexual assault by anal penetration. Nor could his conviction be overturned on the grounds that the judge had given the jury a Watson direction at the same time as a majority verdict direction, as there was no evidence that the jury had been pressured into delivering compromise verdicts.

CA (Crim Div) (Fulford LJ, Cox J, Slade J)

05/12/2013