Criminal appeals from convictions for conspiracy to commit robbery arising out of a series of planned and attempted armoured car robberies, together with sentence appeals concerning compensation orders and one custodial term.
The court rejected challenges to the trial judge’s Vetrovec instruction, the use of contextual evidence under the Carter conspiracy framework, the refusal to edit a prior manslaughter conviction, the handling of alleged threat evidence, the in-court identification ruling, and the claim that the verdict was unreasonable.
However, the court held that the jury was not properly instructed on the impermissible use of bad character and propensity evidence led against one appellant by a co-accused.
The appeal of one appellant was dismissed in full, while the other appellant’s conviction was set aside and a new trial ordered; the compensation order appeal was dismissed.
