Tendency evidence directions must identify the specific features of the evidence constituting the tendency, instruct the jury to scrutinise whether those features demonstrate a pattern, and explain why the pattern makes the charged conduct more probable — a direction that merely states the accused had a sexual interest in complainants and was willing to act on it invites impermissible propensity reasoning.
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