Appeal from conviction of manslaughter – unknown to appellant co-accused was carrying a weapon.
Held: The need to show intention in a secondary defendant for a conviction of a joint enterprise murder case had taken away the full significance of the knowledge as to a weapon carried by a co-accused. It now worked as evidence as to intention, and no longer a pre-requisite of liability for murder. Even so, the need for knowledge of the weapon was not to be reintroduced through the idea of a supervening ‘overwhelming event’ to convict of manslaughter.
Judges:
Sir Brian Leveson P
Citations:
[2018] EWCA Crim 2603, [2019] WLR(D) 4, [2019] 4 WLR 14, [2019] 1 Cr App R 26, [2019] Crim LR 339
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Crime
Updated: 02 September 2022; Ref: scu.633135