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Criminal evidence – Sexual assault on young child – Sufficiency of evidence – Corroboration. High Court of Justiciary: In an appeal by an appellant who was found guilty of a charge of sexual assault on a young child contrary to s 20 of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009, the court rejected the appellant's first ground of appeal—that there was insufficient evidence of a sexual assault on a young child contrary to s 20—but it upheld his second ground to the extent of quashing his conviction and substituting a conviction in terms of the amended indictment under deletion of the part of the libel alleging digital penetration of the complainer's anus.
Criminal evidence – Sexual assault on young child – Sufficiency of evidence – Corroboration. High Court of Justiciary: In an appeal by an appellant who was found guilty of a charge of sexual assault on a young child contrary to s 20 of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009, the court rejected the appellant's first ground of appeal—that there was insufficient evidence of a sexual assault on a young child contrary to s 20—but it upheld his second ground to the extent of quashing his conviction and substituting a conviction in terms of the amended indictment under deletion of the part of the libel alleging digital penetration of the complainer's anus.
Chair of the Bar reports back
Marie Law, Director of Toxicology at AlphaBiolabs
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