Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2007] All ER (D) 380 (Jun)
Court: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division
Judge:

Dyson LJ, Forbes J and Judge Rogers QC

Representation Pavlos Panayi (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the defendant.
  David Farrell QC and Robert O'Sullivan (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the prosecution.
Judgment Dates: 29 June 2007

Catchwords

Criminal law - Appeal - Fresh evidence - Murder - Whether fresh evidence undermining safety of conviction.

The Case

Criminal law Appeal. Where the defendant had been convicted of murder, after having taken part in a fight between two groups of young men outside a nightclub in which the victim had been stabbed to death by a co-accused, the conviction was not rendered unsafe by fresh evidence.

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