Graeme Logan, representing a client suffering from chronic paranoid schizophrenia and instructed by Madeleine Di Matteo at Wells Burcombe LLP, successfully argued that there was no case to answer during the defendant’s trial for attempted rape.
Her Honour Judge Barrie sitting at Isleworth Crown Court agreed with the submission that whilst there was evidence from which the jury could infer an intention to commit rape the acts of the defendant were no more than merely preparatory.
Applying the authority of R v Rowley (Michael) (1992) 94 Cr.App.R she withdrew the case from the jury.
