由此 - 7 A A evidence, and that she was relating to incidents that had taken place years B B ago—when she gave evidence before the judge in September 2010. C D C 21. The judge had the benefit of observing Miss X giving evidence before him for a number of days and he found her “to be a most E F impressive witness who gave compelling evidence of these distressing events which form the subject matter of [the] five charges”; and, despite D E F the lapse of time, he found Miss X “was able to give a detailed description G H G as to what by any account must have been extremely unpleasant and embarrassing for her”. The trial judge found Miss X “to be entirely H truthful and reject out of hand the suggestion that she has fabricated the I events she testified to and deliberately lied to [the] court” (AB 20— I J para. 16 of the Reasons for Verdict). J K L 22. We have had the benefit of reading the full transcript of the trial. Miss X’s evidence of what had happened to her is not inherently K L improbable. One must bear in mind Miss X was a 12-year-old when she M N came across the applicant on the internet. Her evidence was that she “just want to get someone to chat with on the internet and [she] never intended M N to meet [that person]”; she told the applicant “roughly where [she] lived, O P but [she] never thought he would come to look for [her]. At that time [she] thought that when making friends, there was no need to lie to that O P person.” (AB 91, Line O to T). Q R Q 23. Miss X’s naivety and guilelessness could also be gleaned from her evidence in relation the applicant’s query about her father. S T R She said that she had told the applicant that her father was a doctor. She then said, “he even asked me whether my father was in medicine or surgery, but S T U U V V

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