Read the full judgment text of CACC 000025/1999 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 11 January 2000.
1. On 12 January 1999, the Applicant (D1 at trial) was convicted of rape (count 1), following a trial before Mr Recorder Lawrence Lok SC and a jury. On this count, the jury acquitted D2 who had been charged on the basis of a joint enterprise with D1. The jury also acquitted D1 on a second count of attempted non-consensual buggery and D2 on a third count which alleged attempted rape. The victim specified in all the counts was the same person throughout. The learned Recorder imposed a sentence of