Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000544/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 30 July 1999.
1. This is my judgment. Mr Cosgrove's complaint, which includes all his grounds of appeal, is that because the learned magistrate had rejected the evidence of PW4 on the basis that she found that he had exaggerated his evidence, this, as it were, tainted the whole of the prosecution's case. The reason is that prosecution witnesses who are police officers would only lie to mislead the court. This argument seems attractive on the face of it. Miss HO for the respondent submitted that since PW3's ev