Bangura v R
1960s · ALR (S.L.) 439 (1964-66), Court of Appeal of Sierra Leone
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- Facts
- The accused wounded the deceased with a bottle. The victim later received morphia and poor medical treatment before he died.
- Issue
- Did the treatment break the ?
- Held
- No. Applying R v Smith [1959] 2 QB 35, the wound was still an operating and substantial cause of death. The appeal was dismissed.
- Principle
- treatment does not break the chain unless the original wound is merely the setting in which another cause operates.
- Why it matters
- Adopts the English test of causation in homicide.
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