H was charged with the possession of firearms without a certificate.
Held: This was an absolute offence. Hussain was guilty because he knew he had the relevant article even though he did not know it was a firearm.
Citations:
[1972] Cr App R 143
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Atkins v Director of Public Prosecutions; Goodland v Director of Public Prosecutions Admn 8-Mar-2000
For possession of an indecent image of a child to be proved, it was necessary to establish some knowledge of its existence. Images stored without the defendant’s knowledge by browser software in a hidden cache, of which he was also unaware, were not . .
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Crime
Updated: 06 May 2022; Ref: scu.199232
