A trial judge's comments and directions drawing the jury's attention to an accomplice witness's bad character, potential sentencing benefit from cooperation, and possible minimisation of their own role may be sufficient to avoid a perceptible risk of miscarriage of justice without a formal accomplice warning, where the dangers of the evidence are readily apparent to the jury and the witness has no attractive features that might cause the jury to overlook those dangers.
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