Where a jury acquits on some counts and convicts on others in a sexual assault trial, and the differing verdicts are explicable only by doubts about the complainant's credibility rather than by independent evidence specific to particular counts, the guilty verdicts will be quashed as unsafe and unsatisfactory following Jones v The Queen. The existence of some corroborative material (diary entries, complaint evidence) may not save the convictions if the fundamental basis for the differing verdicts remains doubt about the complainant's credibility.
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