Meaning of Significant Risk in Vulnerable Death case
R v Mujuru and another [2007] EWCA Crim 1249
CA
Weekly Law Reports Summary
25 May 2007
Where a jury was considering whether a person was guilty of an offence under s 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 of causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult by the unlawful act of a person in the same household, when he was or ought to have been aware of a “significant” risk of serious physical harm, the term “significant” bore its ordinary, normal meaning.