202400687 B2 - [2025] EWCA Crim 966

Section 74(3) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 provides:

“In any proceedings where evidence is admissible of the fact that the accused has committed an offence, if the accused is proved to have been convicted of the offence—

(a)

by or before any court in the United Kingdom; or

(b)

…,

he shall be taken to have committed that offence unless the contrary is proved.”