The trial judge's summing up on DNA secondary transference evidence is to be assessed in the context of the whole summing up, the real issues at trial, and the cases put by the parties. A non-binding comment on uncontroversial evidence does not constitute a misdirection. A total effective sentence of 6 years' imprisonment for threatening to kill, aggravated assault occasioning bodily harm, and deprivation of liberty in a serious domestic violence context did not infringe the first limb of the totality principle.
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