[2012] EWCA Crim 1167

Irregularities in an offender's post office accounting records could not prove theft and did not provide the motive for his wife's murder. Therefore, the admission of fresh evidence seeking to explain those irregularities did not affect the safety of his conviction for murder, as it was clear that the jury had rejected his explanation that his wife had been killed by robbers independently of the accounting records or any other financial evidence.

CA (Crim Div) (Hughes LJ, Hedley J, Maddison J)

24/05/2012