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In its decision in the case of O�Neill v. the United Kingdom (application no. 14541/15) the European Court of Human Rights has unanimously declared the application inadmissible. The decision is final.
The case concerned Charles Bernard O�Neill, who was convicted in 2010 of murder and several� sexual assaults against vulnerable boys. He complained that the part of his trial which related to the sexual offences against children had not respected his right to be presumed innocent.
The applicant, Charles Bernard O�Neill, is a British national who was born in 1962 and is currently serving a prison sentence at HMP Saughton, Edinburgh (United Kingdom), for murder and a series of sexual offences against children.
He was indicted in 2008 on a number of serious charges, including murder and four sexual assaults against vulnerable boys.
Mr O�Neill appealed against his conviction, arguing that the trial judge had erred in directing the jury to use the evidence which formed the basis of the charge of which he had been acquitted in order to corroborate the other charges.
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