Barry Bennell Case Study

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Crime Aspect 1:

Concept one of the law that I have chosen to explain is criminal law. Criminal law relates too threatening, harmful or otherwise endangering the health and well being of others. Criminal law also deals with actions and omissions that are against the law. Examples of this are: murder, drug abuse, sexual abuse, and theft.

The three main elements of criminal law are. Prohibited by statute, Actus Reus ( Committing the action) and Mens Rea (Intending to do the crime)

Prohibited By Statute:
Prohibited by statute means that the law is approved by the legislature. For the person to be found guilty of a crime.Their crime has to be against the law or the person cant be charged with committing the crime. Today I will be using the Barry Bennell case. The Prohibited by Statute is shown by him sexually assaulting young boys, he has forty-three counts of sexual abuse with underaged boys. This is against crimes act 1961.

Actus Reus: …show more content…

Actus Reus is the physical action (Guilty Act) when performing the crime. This means that the person has to do the crime to be found guilty. When referring back to the Barry Bennell case there has to be evidence that Barry Bennell has done all those sexual acts on those young boys. The evidence, in this case, is all his victims that came forward when he was in court, coming face to face with him years after the abuse. One of the victims walked in saying “ Why Barry, Why Barry?” Victim Gary Cliffe confronted him in court saying his impact statement to Barry Bennell face too

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