K, G & M, R. v

LORD JUSTICE THOMAS LORD JUSTICE GAGE and HH JUDGE RICHARD BROWN DL (Sitting as a Judge of the Court of Appeal Criminal Division) ____________________

Jeffrey V. Pegden QC, instructed by Reynolds Dawson, for the Appellant K Dorian C. Lovell-Pank QC, instructed by Peters and Peters, for the Appellant G Stephen Walters, instructed by Hodge, Jones & Allen for the Appellant M Bobbie Parmjit Cheema and Christopher Foulkes, instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service, for the Prosecution Hearing date: 16 July 2004 ____________________

i) They had contended that the particulars lacked precision. In rejecting this submission, the trial judge held:

ii) As part of the submission of no case to answer, the appellants contended that there was insufficient evidence of an agreement given that no representation was precisely the same. The judge rejected that submission in these terms:

i) It was well established that a jury could not convict a defendant unless they were unanimous as to each ingredient of the offence.