Post-offence text messages sent by a sexual assault complainant to the accused are potentially inconsistent statements, not independent objective evidence, and the complainant's explanation for sending them is a matter for the jury to assess with the advantage of seeing and hearing the witness. A trial judge's observations about the weakness of the Crown case, made in the absence of the jury, are irrelevant to the appellate assessment of whether the verdict was unreasonable. The jury advantage may be 'relatively wide' where the witness gives evidence through an interpreter and has a different cultural background.
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