A child complainant's use of hyperbolic language such as 'every night' or numerical estimates like '1,460 nights' when describing prolonged sexual abuse does not render a guilty verdict unreasonable, as a jury is entitled to understand such statements as conveying frequent and regular offending rather than literal daily occurrence. Evidence that an offender acted brazenly in locations where detection was possible does not render a complainant's account implausible, as such conduct may be consistent with known patterns of offender behaviour.
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