Where evidence of uncharged acts is admitted in a trial involving both a maintaining charge and specific sexual offence counts, the trial judge must ordinarily give a propensity warning directing the jury that the uncharged acts evidence is relevant only to the maintaining count and cannot be used to reason from propensity to guilt on specific counts. A direction that the jury should convict on the basis of uncharged acts if they have doubt about specific offences is wrong in law.
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