Inconsistencies in a complainant's evidence regarding peripheral details of a sexual assault (such as the precise physical position of the offender) do not render a verdict unsafe and unsatisfactory where the complainant's accounts are internally consistent on the core aspects of the offending and the inconsistencies are explicable by the circumstances. An abbreviated complaint that does not use the word 'rape' or 'sexual assault' is not necessarily inconsistent with the complainant's account of rape, and may be relied upon by the jury as a partial complaint bolstering credibility.
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