[2013] EWCA Crim 2182

The Suppression of Terrorism Act 1978 s.4 did not create a separate statutory jurisdiction in relation to murder committed outside the United Kingdom, but simply expanded the territorial reach of common law murder to other "convention countries" under s.4, in a way which enabled a prosecution to proceed for an offence of murder committed in any convention country, including England and Wales. Accordingly, in s.4 proceedings where it could not be proved whether the murder had been committed in England or in another convention country, a direction that it was immaterial whether the murder had been committed in England or in another convention country was correct.

CA (Crim Div) (Treacy LJ, Green J, Sir David Maddison)

08/11/2013