[2013] EWCA Crim 907

Although a judge had erred in allowing evidence of a defendant's rape conviction to be adduced under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 s.101(c) in his trial for breaches of a sexual prevention order, the direction to the jury that the rape was of no relevance and that the sole issue for them was whether the breaches had occurred meant that his conviction for the breaches was safe.

CA (Crim Div) (Elias LJ, Collins J, Judge Russell QC (Recorder of Preston))

24/05/2013