Multiple complaints by a sexual offence complainant may each be admissible where each is made at the 'first reasonable opportunity', that expression referring qualitatively to the nature of the complaint and the circumstances, not to a single fixed point in time. A Faure warning is not required where the shortcomings of the complainant's evidence are obvious to lay jurors and there is no concealed trap in the evidence.
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