Acquittals on some counts of sexual offences involving a single complainant can be reconciled with a conviction on another count where the forensic evidence directly supports the conviction count but not the others, and where the complainant's own evidence contained inconsistencies regarding the other counts. A jury's cautious approach in requiring direct corroborative evidence for each count does not render the verdicts inconsistent.
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