Key legal question
Whether the child's police and video interviews were unusable because the defendant was absent from the first interview.
Extracted holding
The interviews were admissible because the defendant later had a sufficient opportunity to review the recording and to question the child at the second interview.
Extracted reasoning
Article 6 ECHR requires at least one adequate opportunity to challenge the witness. That requirement was satisfied; admissibility does not depend on whether the first statement was decisive.