Kohai v R - [2015] 1 NZLR 833

Criminal practice and procedure — Evidence — Expert evidence — Evidence as to counter-intuitive behaviour of children who have been sexually abused generally — Evidence as to delays in reporting sexual abuse — “Dead-end reporting” — Incremental reporting — Denial of abuse — Continued contact with alleged abuser — Witness unwilling to answer questions on false complaints — Whether evidence substantially helpful — Evidence Act 2006, s 25.

Criminal practice and procedure — Conduct of prosecutor — Prosecutor’s statement in closing — Whether unjustifiable comparison of consensual relationship with 16 year old girl with alleged sexual offences against six to nine year old girls — Reference to “taste for young girls” inflammatory.