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R v OWEN SIDNEY McCULLOUGH (2011)

PUBLISHED May 20, 2011
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[2011] EWCA Crim 1413

A conviction for robbery and having an offensive weapon was safe where the victim had recognised the accused from photographs on the social networking site, Facebook. Although that identification evidence was capable of weakening the victim's identification of the accused in a later formal video identification parade, the objections to its admissibility went to weight and were not such as to render the Facebook identification inadmissible.

CA (Crim Div) (Richards LJ, Rafferty J, Judge Paget QC)

20/05/2011

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