Where a complainant has expressly told the accused their age and the accused professes disbelief, tendency evidence showing a pattern of using 'tests' to earn trust from persons under 16 is admissible to negate the professed disbelief — this is distinguishable from Larsen, where tendency evidence was used to overcome an absence of any express information about age. A chain of photographic reproductions of electronic messages does not involve hearsay where each person in the chain gave evidence about the reproduction process. The mitigatory principle concerning a serious risk of imprisonment having a grave effect on health is confined to the risk from imprisonment itself, and does not extend to the risk of consequences from a possible failure of the prison system to provide timely medical treatment.
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