Explainer: Man acquitted of raping daughter as her evidence was not ‘unusually convincing’ — what does this legal term mean?
Recently, the High Court acquitted a father accused of 13 charges of various types of sexual abuse and statutory rape against his daughter when she was between five and 12 years old. This has caused some consternation among commentators, especially as a reason for the acquittal was that the evidence of the daughter was not “unusually convincing” enough to justify conviction.
