A direction on complaint evidence in a sexual offence trial must address both the permitted use (consistency/credibility) and the prohibited use (not evidence of the truth of its contents). Unless the direction contains both elements, it will almost always be fatally flawed. Trial judges must also clearly distinguish complaint evidence from evidence of distress, given that distress evidence is capable of corroborating the complainant while complaint evidence is not.
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