Fresh evidence that a complainant has made demonstrably false allegations of sexual violence in other matters, combined with independent psychiatric evidence of dissociative episodes, can be sufficient to establish that no reasonable jury could convict, warranting the quashing of a conviction on a second appeal under s 353A of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 (SA). The agreed fact of a complaint to a general practitioner, which would otherwise have been inadmissible, was held to be of very little weight.
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