An indirect approach to establishing a prior inconsistent statement — leading a witness through the detail of their initial account to police without squarely putting the omission, thereby leaving the jury to draw the inference of inconsistency — is a recognisable forensic technique that can constitute an explicable forensic choice under the TKWJ test, particularly where squarely putting the inconsistency would provoke credible explanations diminishing its forensic impact.
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