Circumstance

• Definition


  • Situation making them do a crime, not a threat
  • Allowed for any crime but murder
• R v Conway 


  Recklessly drove to get away from undercover police officers he feared were going to kill his friend

  • circumstance made him fear death/ serious injury which is he drove recklessly
• Dpp v Bell


  Drove drunk as to escape a situation where he thought he would die, only permissible for a sufficient period of escape