Inconsistencies in a child complainant's evidence about peripheral details such as timing, who came to the door, and the order of events do not render guilty verdicts unreasonable where the jury was entitled to accept the core account of offending. Evidence that a complainant lost her virginity to the accused during a charged act of incest is relevant and highly probative, and its prejudicial effect does not outweigh its probative value under s 137 of the Evidence Act 2008 where the evidence expressly articulates what other unchallenged evidence would have conveyed.
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