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CRIMINAL DIVISION
Strand London, WC2 |
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B e f o r e :
MR JUSTICE BEATSON
HIS HONOUR JUDGE JACOBS
(sitting as a judge of the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division)
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GARY GOOD |
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Mr R Cherrill appeared on behalf of the Crown
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"You were acting out of a desire for revenge. You punched him twice in the face and then celebrated by raising your hand and saying, 'I am the master, I am the master'; is that true?"
Mr Cherrill fairly accepts that that was a question which could be described as self-indulgent. It was, again to use his words, "the big flourish at the end of the cross-examination".
"... I have no doubt that what the impression the defendant was trying to convey was that he was not someone who would behave as a question of totality in the way that Mr Stone's assailant behaved on the night in question; that is a false impression and it is a false impression in my judgment which the prosecution are entitled to correct."