Where a child complainant's evidence about the timing of offending is imprecise and qualified, and the link between a particular date and the commencement of offending was elicited in leading form rather than volunteered, the evidence does not necessarily confine the offending to the narrow timeframe asserted by the defence. A child's imprecision as to dates, explicable by age and effluxion of time, does not of itself render a verdict unreasonable. The cases of Cawthray and Kennedy are confined to situations where the complainant insisted on particular dates or calculations that were objectively unlikely.
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