R V K [2002] 1 AC 462 - Oxbridge Notes

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• A man had sex with a 14 year old girl, genuinely, though not reasonably, believing that she was 14.

• HL quashed conviction, saying that the belief as to the victim’s age had merely to be genuine and honest.

Lord Bingham

• However, said, the unreasonableness of the belief is not irrelevant, since a very far fetched claim as to what Defendant believe might make the jury less wiling to accept that he actually believed it. 

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