A trial judge giving a circumstantial evidence direction is not required to outline a specific alternative hypothesis consistent with innocence where the accused does not propound one, but rather contends only that the Crown case is insufficient. The standard Criminal Trials Bench Book direction on circumstantial evidence, including the passage referring to 'any other reasonable conclusion arising from those facts', does not reverse the onus of proof.
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