Criminal Trial–Interested or Related Witness–Testimony–Evaluation–Evidence of such witness calls for extra caution, when the evidence of such witness suffers from contradictions and discrepancies for knowingly or unknowingly a departure from telling the truth by a witness belonging to such category naturally leads to give rise to inconsistencies–The discrepancies and inconsistencies in the testimony of a related or interested witness will have to be viewed in such context, and more particularly when other evidence on record sufficiently demolishes the evidence of the related or interested witness, its evidence would entirely loss its reliability to stand in support of the prosecution.
