murder and manslaughter

Woolin (1998)

(Murder)

D must realize the consequence is a virtual certainty (threw 3 month old at a wall and it died)

R V Vickers (1957)

(Murder)

Where a D intends to inflict GBH and the V dies, it’s always been sufficient to imply malice aforethought. (D broke into sweet shop and killed old lady)

R V Jewell (2014)

(VM)

Sufficient evidence of loss of control. (Shot V and fled in his car full of a survival kit)

R V Byrne (1960)

(VM)

Got manslaughter not murder after strangling young woman and mutilating her body bc he was a sexual psychopath who couldn’t control his perverted desires.

Church (1966)

(IM)

D thought a woman he hit was dead so he threw her body in a river but she was alive then drowned. Found guilty as it didn’t matter that he didn’t realise throwing her into river was dangerous (as he thought her dead) as a sober and reasonable person would have realized there was such a risk.

DPP V Newbury and Jones (1976)

IM

2 teen boys pushed a paving stone from bridge onto railway line and it killed the guard. Wasn’t necessary to prove the D foresaw any harm from his act still convicted.

R V Broughton (2020)

(IM)

At music festival D supplied drugs for GF who had a bad reaction and died while D stayed by her side but didn’t call for help. Conviction quashed as evidence couldn’t prove causation- that she would have lived had he called for help.