Where an accused has made prior admissions of sexual activity with the complainant (even non-specific admissions), those admissions provide a proper basis for the jury to reject the accused's denials at trial and bolster the complainant's credibility. Different verdicts on different counts in sexual offence cases can be logically explained by factors such as late disclosure of particular incidents, confusion of events in the complainant's evidence regarding specific counts, and the absence of corroborating evidence for some counts but not others.
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