The court considered responsibility where the defendant had supplied a drug to the victim who had died from the drug. In this case the victim was a fifteen year old prostitute coming to use heroin for the first time. It was not clear that she could have been capable of genuine consent to the consequences.
Times 07-Apr-2008, [1998] Crim LR 830
England and Wales
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Cited – Kane v HM Advocate; MacAngus v HM Advocate HCJ 27-Jan-2009
The defendants appealed against convictions for culpable homicide. In each case they had supplied a drug to the victim who had then self-administered the drug and died as a consequence.
Held: The appeals failed. The court considered whether . .
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Updated: 22 August 2021; Ref: scu.332843