[2008] EWCA Crim 1222

Once the jury had found that a teenage defendant had deliberately started a fire in his house where the rest of his family were asleep in bed, and that he had walked away from the house once the fire had taken hold, the inference was overwhelming that he must have appreciated that death or serious injury was a virtual certainty. He therefore had the necessary intent for murder.

CA (Crim Div) (Toulson LJ, Jack J, Simon J)

10/06/2008