Man who raped 6-year-old daughter day after her mother died fails to overturn conviction

Claims that the victim had lied during trial a 'continuation of the abuse', judge says

A man who first raped his then six-year-old daughter the day after her mother died and continued to rape and sexually assault her over four years has lost his Supreme Court bid to overturn his conviction.

Giving the five-judge court’s unanimous judgment, Mr Justice Peter Charleton said that claims by the man and others that his daughter, now in her early 20s and referred to as T, “confessed” after his conviction to having lied at trial were “self-serving” and “cannot be deemed credible”.