R v SPRS

DISTRICT COURT OF QUEENSLAND CITATION: R v SPRS [2021] QDC 301 PARTIES: THE QUEEN v SPRS FILE NO: 530/21 DIVISION: Criminal PROCEEDING: Trial ORIGINATING COURT: District Court DELIVERED ON: 3 December 2021 DELIVERED AT: Ipswich HEARING DATE: 22 November 2021; 23 November 2021 JUDGE: Lynch QC DCJ FINDING: 1.   SPRS is formally discharged in respect of all counts on indictment number 530 of 2021 CATCHWORDS: CRIMINAL LAW – TRIAL HAD BEFORE JUDGE WITHOUT JURY – where defendant is charged with two counts of rape and one count of common assault – where a no jury order was made – where the trial proceeded before a judge alone – whether the Crown has proved beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant raped and/or unlawfully assaulted the complainant LEGISLATION: Criminal Code 1899 (Qld) ss 4, 210(1), 245, 268, 269, 335, 349, 578(1), 583(1), 615B, 615C COUNSEL: Mr D Meredith for the prosecution Mr C Minnery for the defendant SOLICITORS: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for the prosecution Ryan Murdoch O'Regan Lawyers for the defendant ProceedingsSPRS is charged on indictment before the District Court at Ipswich with the following offences: Count 1:That on a date unknown between the first day of April 2007 and the thirty-first day of September 2010 at Ipswich in the State of Queensland, SPRS raped CERS.Count 2:That on a date unknown between the first day of April 2007 and the thirty-first day of September 2010 at Ipswich in the State of Queensland, SPRS raped CERS.Count 3:That on a...