Ed Wylde prosecuted a stepfather, now convicted of two counts of sexual assault of a child under 13 and two counts of assault by penetration of a child under 13.
The Defendant was alleged to have abused his stepdaughter in a number of ways over multiple years; the case involved sensitive witness-handling, the exploration of potentially relevant cultural sensitivities, and an extensive dissection of the Defendant’s account in the course of cross-examination. Ed took over the prosecution of the case after a previous trial had ended in a hung jury; at the conclusion of a five-day trial at Winchester Crown Court this time around, the jury accepted the Crown’s case and convicted the Defendant on all counts.
