A convicted sex offender who abused his daughter over a four-year period has had his application for leave to appeal dismissed from the Supreme Court.
The offender, whose name was suppressed to protect the identity of his daughter, was convicted on 15 counts of sex offending against his daughter between 1998 and 2004. At the time she was aged between 12 and 16 years.
The offender argued that a phone call made by his daughter to him at the suggestion of the police was improperly obtained and should have been excluded at trial under the Evidence Act 2006.
In the course of the call, the offender made admissions implicating him in the offending with which he was later charged.
An earlier appeal to the Court of Appeal was also dismissed.
