A trial judge is not required to direct the jury on fanciful interpretations of evidence not relied upon by the defence, even where the [name withheld] duty to put defences reasonably open on the evidence applies. DNA evidence need not be the subject of specific contamination directions where it is not an indispensable link in the chain of circumstantial reasoning, or where the fact it was adduced to prove has been admitted.
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