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Court of Appeal dismisses appeal against conviction for multiple counts of indecent assault, on the grounds that: (a) evidence of the complainant's complaint to her mother was correctly admitted as it was not necessary that the entirety of a complainant’s version of events must be retold to the recipient of the complaint, but rather that anything said was not positively inconsistent therewith; and (b) this was not a case where the trial judge ought to have directed an acquittal, as there was ample evidence upon which a jury could properly convict and the inconsistencies in the evidence were properly a matter for the jury.
Appeal against conviction for 156 counts of indecent assault - complainant is cousin of appellant - offences took place when complainant was between ages of 2-3 and 5-6 - evidence admitted that complainant told her mother about the abuse when she was 8 years old - whether trial judge erred in admitting evidence under the doctrine of recent complaint - whether trial judge erred in refusing the defence application for a directed verdict of not guilty on all counts at the close of the prosecution case.
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