Where a co-offender's evidence that the accused was their drug supplier is strongly corroborated by intercepted telephone communications and surveillance evidence showing contact coinciding with drug transactions, the verdict will not be unreasonable even in the absence of forensic evidence directly linking the accused to the drugs. Where the co-offender's evidence on later transactions is strongly supported by objective evidence, the jury may also accept the co-offender's uncorroborated evidence on earlier transactions.
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