ABH Flashcards
r v chan fook
FACTS
The victim was lodging at a house when the owners lost an engagements sing. After striking the victim several times, they locked him in a room on the second floor. The victim tried to escape by tying bedsheets together and climbing out of a window. The victim fell and suffered serious injury’s
r v chan fook
LEGAL PRINCIPLE
To be ABH, injury needed not to be permanent but nos trivial. Without medical evidence to support psychattic condition conviction for ABH couldn’t stand
DPP v smith
FACTS
The defendants ex girlfriend went round to his house whilst he was asleep. He pushed her onto the bed and cut Off her ponytail,
DPP v smith
LEGAL PRINCIPLE
Cutting hair can amount to ABH
R(T) v DPP
FACTS
The victim was approached by a group of boys who began attacking him he tried to escape but fell. The defendant kicked the victim and the victim fell unconscious
R(T) v DPP
LEGAL PRINCIPLE
loss of consciousness suffered by the victim fell within the meaning of harm, the defendant was guilty of an assault occasioning to ABH