A Longman warning is not required merely because of a delay of sixteen months between offences and arrest where the Crown case rests on cogent fingerprint evidence rather than complainant identification. An Azzopardi direction regarding the accused's silence is not mandatory in every case and its absence does not constitute a miscarriage of justice where the accused relied on denials in an ERISP and defence counsel did not seek such a direction. Fresh expert evidence challenging the age of fingerprints will not satisfy the Gallagher test where the Crown expert had the advantage of examining the latent prints at the crime scene and the Crown had otherwise excluded innocent contact with the object.
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