2 Sept 2022
HENG v R [2022] NZHC 2232
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 2232
- Court
- High Court
The Court found the complainant's EVI and oral evidence established, beyond reasonable doubt, attempts by the appellant to effect oral sexual connection but did not establish beyond reasonable doubt that actual insertion/penetration occurred because the EVI contained interviewer-led reformulations and the complainant consistently stated she closed or moved her mouth; accordingly the conviction for sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection could not stand but the evidence supported substitution with a conviction for attempted sexual violation under s234(2) CPA; the other convictions for i…