Voice identification evidence is admissible where the witness has pre-existing familiarity with the voice, with the weight of such evidence being a matter for the jury. The court noted an anomaly between the maximum penalties for break enter and steal with corporal violence (s 112) and sexual intercourse without consent (s 61I) given the relative gravity of the conduct.
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