Queen v CK
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judge | Kerr LCJ |
| Judgment Date | 21 May 2008 |
| Neutral Citation | [2008 NICA 24 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Northern Ireland) |
| Date | 21 May 2008 |
| Year | 2008 |
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Neutral Citation no. [2008] NICA 24 Ref:
KER7172
Judgment: approved by the Court for handing down Delivered:
21/05/2008
(subject to editorial corrections)*
IN HER MAJESTY’S COURT OF APPEAL IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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BETWEEN:
THE QUEEN
v
CK
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Before Kerr LCJ, Girvan LJ and Coghlin J
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KERR LCJ
Introduction
[1] As this application for leave to appeal involves alleged sexual abuse of a
female when she was a minor, nothing should be reported about the appeal or
the proceedings in the Crown Court that would tend to identify the victim.
This requires that the identity of the complainant and the applicant should
not be revealed. It is also necessary that there should be no reference to the
names of various persons who gave evidence at the trial who are connected
with either of them, whether as relatives or otherwise. Throughout this
judgment the complainant will be referred to as ‘A’, the applicant as ‘CK’ and
other personalities by appropriate acronyms.
[2] The applicant applies for leave to appeal against his conviction of three
offences of sexual abuse of the complainant. She is the daughter of his wife’s
sister. He had been charged on an indictment containing ten counts. These
counts, the verdicts reached by the jury on each of them and the sentences
imposed are set out in the following table: -
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