Where a Crown witness testifies that an accused made inculpatory admissions, evidence of facts unknown to that witness which are consistent with the content of the admissions is capable of corroborating the making of the admissions, even though those facts may be equally consistent with an innocent hypothesis. The jury may assess the cumulative effect of multiple items of such circumstantial evidence without being required to find that any individual item independently constitutes corroboration. Vigilante killings involving premeditation and planning will not attract mitigation for distress and human frailty.
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