Three appellants appealed their convictions for a September 2015 bank robbery and related offences.
The Crown's case relied heavily on testimony from a witness with bipolar disorder and a permanent brain injury who had given a police statement while in custody.
The appellants challenged the admissibility and reliability of her evidence, arguing she was merely reading from her police statement rather than testifying from refreshed memory, and that a Vetrovec warning should have been given.
The trial judge found her evidence reliable and corroborated by circumstantial evidence including DNA evidence and surveillance footage.
The appellants also sought to introduce the witness's criminal record as fresh evidence.
The Court of Appeal upheld all convictions and dismissed the sentence appeal, finding the trial judge's factual findings were reasonable and grounded in evidence.
