Where a jury does not accept a complainant's evidence of uncharged sexual misconduct, the jury must be directed that this conclusion may properly influence their assessment of the complainant's credibility regarding the charged offences. A direction that rejection of uncharged conduct evidence is 'not likely to influence' the credibility assessment is erroneous. Additionally, a general direction that the jury may use uncharged conduct evidence 'along with all the other evidence' to decide whether charges are proved is undesirable where specific permissible uses have already been identified, as it risks inviting impermissible propensity reasoning.
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