The case confirms that where defence counsel's closing address at trial specifically attacks the complainant's evidence on a particular charge on grounds unique to that charge, the jury's acquittal on that charge provides a plausible explanation for different verdicts and does not render guilty verdicts on other charges inconsistent. A forensic disadvantage direction need not exhaustively catalogue every conceivable disadvantage to be adequate.
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