What is the evidence against the accused in a sexual assault case?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from R v Ahmadi, 2015 BCPC 135 (CanLII):

These are not the kinds of things very close friends, even if one of them might be involved in the drug trade, would do to the other, in my opinion. Thus, the central element or linchpin of the accused's story makes no sense and, in my opinion, is incapable of any reasonable or rational analysis. His version of events is not at all the most consistent or even consistent at all. It is inconsistent with the probabilities affecting the case as a whole or the preponderance of probabilities which a practical and informed person would readily recognize as reasonable in that place and in those conditions shown to exist at the time: see Farnya v. Chorney.

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