A false odometer reading on a vehicle offered for sale may constitute a false pretence by conduct for the purposes of fraud offences, even without any oral representation about the reading. The pattern of conduct across multiple similar transactions can properly be relied upon by a jury to infer knowledge and joint participation by co-accused, displacing competing inferences consistent with innocence.
The full text is available to signed-in members, including the 4 later cases that cite this judgment.
1 of the 4 citing cases carry a classified treatment. How each court treated it is available to signed-in members.