| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2009] All ER (D) 261 (Jun) |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Criminal Division |
| Judge: | Richards LJ, Gloster and Dobbs JJ (judgment delivered extempore) |
| Representation | Mark Barlow (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the defendant. |
| Christopher Geeson (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Crown. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 16 June 2009 |
Catchwords
Criminal law - Appeal - Fresh evidence - Murder - Reference by Criminal Cases Review Commission - Defendant allegedly confessing to offence - Prosecution case at trial relying heavily on defendant's alleged confessions - Reliability of defendant's confessions subsequently undermined by psychiatric evidence not available at trial - Whether conviction safe.
The Case
Criminal law Appeal. Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: The defendant's conviction for murder was quashed where the case against him rested almost entirely on confessions he had made, the reliability of which was undermined by expert evidence obtained after his conviction.
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