The service appealed dismissal of an information alleging breach of a community rehabilitation order.
Held: The appeal succeeded. Such a breach had to be established to the criminal standard of being beyond reasonable doubt, but the magistrates were entitled to infer from coincidences of name address and date of birth that the person before them was the person named by the information.
Judges:
Keene LJ, Poole J
Citations:
Times 11-Oct-2005
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Criminal Practice
Updated: 12 April 2022; Ref: scu.234548