Appeal against refusal of defendant’s application for separate trials of sets of allegations of different offences allegedly committed 24 years apart.
Held: Not allowed. Amendments to the rules allowed such trials where evidence of commission of one set of offences might be admissible as evidence of bad character on the other offence.
However it would be difficult to say that sch allegations were part of a series of offences.
Judges:
Bean LJ, Sir David Calvert-Smith, Judge Williams
Citations:
[2019] EWCA Crim 447, [2019] WLR(D) 157
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Criminal Practice, Criminal Evidence
Updated: 30 May 2022; Ref: scu.634824
