A MAN WHO was jailed for nine years for repeatedly raping a woman he met on a dating website after giving a false name has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal.
He did not accept the verdicts of the jury and continued to maintain the woman made up the allegations because she was “attention seeking”. In delivering the Court of Appeal’s judgement today, Justice Patrick McCarthy said the three-judge court had a concern that the jury may not have fully understood how they should approach the question of lies.
When this occurs, a warning should be given to the jury that individuals may tell lies for many different reasons, and that the telling of lies is not necessarily indicative of guilt for that reason, the judges said.
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