Re-enactment evidence is admissible where there is substantial similarity in essential conditions, with minor variations going to weight rather than admissibility. Expert telecommunications evidence about mobile phone cell coverage is capable of corroborating a witness's evidence as to the location of a caller, even where more than one inference may be drawn from the evidence. Curial perjury will warrant an immediate custodial sentence save in wholly exceptional cases, and a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment with partial suspension is within range for a first offender police officer convicted of perjury.
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