[2013] EWCA Crim 1844

In a case involving allegations of conspiracy to supply cocaine, a jury direction which stated that the conspiracy could consist of any one of the named defendants plus a person unknown resulted in the quashing of an appellant's conviction on the ground that that direction allowed the possibility that he and his co-accused had been convicted of the offence indicted without the jury necessarily being sure that each was guilty of the same conspiracy.

CA (Crim Div) (Rafferty LJ, Wyn Williams J, Judge Russell QC (Recorder of Preston))

08/05/2013