Where post-offence conduct including lies is relied upon as circumstantial evidence and the trial judge gives adequate directions on circumstantial evidence including alternative explanations, a separate [name withheld] direction is not necessarily required. The phrase 'a doubt reasonably arising on the evidence' is not of itself a misdirection but is best avoided in favour of the conventional formula.
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