In single-complainant sexual offence cases, evidence of charged acts may be used as tendency evidence to support other charged acts involving the same complainant, following Versi v The Queen. There is no logical basis for treating tendency reasoning in relation to charged acts differently from uncharged acts. DNA evidence linking an accused to items connected with the alleged offending is admissible as tendency evidence even where the prosecution cannot establish precisely how or when the DNA was deposited.
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