Criminology unit 3 miss johannes
Research tasks (2.3)
R vs Khan (1996)
● The police had obtained the evidence against the defendant by fixing a covert listening
device at an apartment visited by the defendant, and by recording his conversations
there. The defendant appealed, saying that the court should have regard to his rights of
privacy as enshrined in articles 6 and 8 of the Convention.
● The defendant appealed, saying that the court should have regard to his rights of privacy
as enshrined in articles 6 and 8 of the Convention.
What was the decision of the court ?
Due to the use of entrapment the evidence was deemed inadmissible.
What reasons did the court give for its decision?
The way the evidence was collected was unsuitable, and classed as entrapment so therefore
deemed as inadmissible.
Real evidence needed for:
(DNA, clothes fibres. Eye witnesses, specialist witnesses, clothes fibres,weapon, finger prints,
paint etc…)
● Murder trial =
- Weapon
- DNA e.g blood,hair,bodily fluids etc...
- Cctv
- Eyewitness testimony
- Specialist witness e.g pathologist
- Fingerprints
- Clothes fibres
- Footprints
● Fraud trial =
- Computer records? History
- Bank/ financial statements
- Phone records
- Witness testimony
● GBH=
- DNA e.g blood
Research tasks (2.3)
R vs Khan (1996)
● The police had obtained the evidence against the defendant by fixing a covert listening
device at an apartment visited by the defendant, and by recording his conversations
there. The defendant appealed, saying that the court should have regard to his rights of
privacy as enshrined in articles 6 and 8 of the Convention.
● The defendant appealed, saying that the court should have regard to his rights of privacy
as enshrined in articles 6 and 8 of the Convention.
What was the decision of the court ?
Due to the use of entrapment the evidence was deemed inadmissible.
What reasons did the court give for its decision?
The way the evidence was collected was unsuitable, and classed as entrapment so therefore
deemed as inadmissible.
Real evidence needed for:
(DNA, clothes fibres. Eye witnesses, specialist witnesses, clothes fibres,weapon, finger prints,
paint etc…)
● Murder trial =
- Weapon
- DNA e.g blood,hair,bodily fluids etc...
- Cctv
- Eyewitness testimony
- Specialist witness e.g pathologist
- Fingerprints
- Clothes fibres
- Footprints
● Fraud trial =
- Computer records? History
- Bank/ financial statements
- Phone records
- Witness testimony
● GBH=
- DNA e.g blood
