Photographic evidence of injuries may be relevant to assessing the credibility and reliability of a complainant's evidence even where the accused concedes the assault, because the severity of injuries may explain inconsistencies in the complainant's account. A jury is entitled to accept unchallenged evidence of a complainant on a critical element of the offence notwithstanding numerous inconsistencies in other parts of the complainant's evidence, particularly where the inconsistencies relate to the sequence of events during a violent assault.
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