R v Geoffrey Singleton
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judge | Carswell LCJ |
| Judgment Date | 11 July 2003 |
| Neutral Citation | [2003] NICA 29 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Northern Ireland) |
| Date | 11 July 2003 |
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Neutral Citation No. [2003] NICA 29
Ref:
CARC3970
Judgment: approved by the Court for handing down Delivered:
11.07.2003
(subject to editorial corrections)
IN HER MAJESTY’S COURT OF APPEAL IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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THE QUEEN
v
GEOFFREY SINGLETON
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Before: Carswell LCJ, Nicholson LJ and Higgins J
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CARSWELL LCJ
[1] On 5 October 2001 the appellant was convicted at Newry Crown Court
on both counts in the indictment on which he was tried, causing grievous
bodily harm to Samuel Vennard with intent and assault on Gary Williamson
occasioning him actual bodily harm. The trial judge, His Honour Judge
McKay QC, sentenced him on 7 February 2002 to 15 years’ imprisonment on
the first count and three years concurrent on the second. He applied for leave
to appeal against conviction and sentence and the single judge gave leave to
appeal against sentence but refused leave to appeal against conviction.
[2] On 2 July 2000 the two injured parties Samuel Vennard and Gary
Williamson were drinking in Williamson’s flat at 10 Sinton Park, Tandragee,
in the course of which they reached an advanced stage of intoxication. Both
men appear to have fallen asleep. The police arrived in response to a call at
approximately 7.30 pm and on entering the flat found Vennard lying on a sofa
covered in blood. His lower jaw was fractured in three places and his left
cheekbone was also fractured. Williamson was not present at the time, but
had on his evidence sustained a cut to the forehead, swelling and bruising to
his head and a bloody nose.
[3] The Crown case was that it was the appellant who had inflicted the
injuries on Vennard and Williamson. The appellant denied throughout the
investigation and in his evidence given in court that he had done so. He
made the case that he was at a Drumcree demonstration at the time and that
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