The defendant had been denied access to a solicitor at interview. He appealed against his conviction, saying his confession should not have been admitted, having been obtained by duress.
Held: Although there had been breaches of the Act and of the Codes of Practice, they were not such as to render the admission of the confession unfair. The defendant had shown himself well capable of handling the interviews.
Citations:
(1988) 87 Cr App R 380
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Regina v McGarry CACD 16-Jul-1998
Where the judge decided that no inference could be drawn from the defendant’s silence, because of the absence of facts which could have been mentioned, he had a duty positively to warn the jury not arbitrarily to draw adverse inferences from the . .
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Criminal Evidence
Updated: 23 March 2022; Ref: scu.185662