Criminal trial concerning multiple sexual offences against two child complainants, including a park incident involving alcohol and historical abuse by a stepfather in a position of trust.
The court applied the W.(D.) framework to conflicting testimony, accepted the complainants' evidence as materially corroborated by forensic DNA, toxicology, scene evidence, and post-offence conduct, and rejected the defence theory that the accused had been threatened, drugged, and framed.
The court also found that recorded recantation efforts were the product of coercive family pressure rather than genuine admissions of fabrication.
Guilty findings were entered on all counts.
