LAWS 2302 Lecture 5: 2302 criminal law class 5
16 Mar 2016
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Two persons may both be actual committers for the purpose of s. 21(1)(a) referred to in case law variously as co-principles joint-principles co-perpetrators joint-perpetrators . Dunlop and sylvester v. r : a gang rape of the complainant occurred late at night in an isolated area, the site of a former dump, where members of a motorcycle club were having a party. Some eighteen men had intercourse with the complainant while she was being held by two other members of the group. She identified dunlop and sylvester as two of the men who attacked her but they denied the charge. They testified that they had attended a meeting of the club at the dump earlier in the evening in question, and later were present in a beverage room where the complainant and a friend were spending some time. Still later, the accused delivered a quantity of beer at the dump.
