Barry George v Regina: CACD 29 Jul 2002

There had been an identification parade, but the witness had not made an unqualified identification of the defendant. He now appealed admission of the evidence from ID parade.
Held: Recognising the difficulties in identification evidence, and the dangers identified in Turnbull, with appropriate caution a qualified identification might be admitted, either where it supported other evidence, or where the context explained the limited identification, and was not used to undermine a witness. The judge must take care to balance the prejudice and the value of the evidence before admitting it.

Judges:

Lord Woolf, Lord Chief Justice, Mr Justice Curtis and Mr Justice Henriques

Citations:

Times 30-Aug-2002, Gazette 03-Oct-2002, [2002] EWCA Crim 1923

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Citing:

CitedRegina v Turnbull and Another etc CCA 9-Jun-1976
The defendants appealed against their convictions which had been based upon evidence of visual identification.
Held: Identification evidence can be unreliable, and courts must take steps to reduce injustice. The judge should warn the jury of . .

Cited by:

See AlsoGeorge v Regina CACD 15-Nov-2007
The defendant appealed against his conviction for the murder of the BBC presenter Jill Dando. He said that the prosecution had relied heavily on the discovery, a year later, of a single particle of firearm discharge residue.
Held: The evidence . .
CitedHM Attorney General v MGN Ltd and Another Admn 29-Jul-2011
The police arrested a man on suspicion of the murder of a young woman. He was later released and exonerated, and a second man arrested and later convicted. Whilst the first was in custody the two defendant newspapers, the Daily Mirror and the Sun . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Crime, Evidence

Updated: 30 June 2022; Ref: scu.174353