The defendant appealed against his conviction for the murder of his partner. He said that the court should have accepted his plea under section 54 of the 2009 Act, having wrongly admitted as evidence his previous covictions in Bulgaria at a time when, he said, people of his racial descent were regularly wrongly convicted.
Pitchford LJ, Openshaw J, Melbourne Inman QC
[2014] EWCA Crim 1523
Bailii
Coroners and Justice Act 2009 54, Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 73
England and Wales
Crime, Criminal Evidence
Updated: 02 November 2021; Ref: scu.534639