You will not, I suspect, have to decide every small disputed fact that has arisen in this relatively lengthy case. You only have to decide those matters which enable you to say whether or not the charge against this defendant has been proved, and you do that by having regard to the whole of the evidence, including the agreed and the admitted evidence and forming your own judgment about the witnesses and which evidence is reliable and which evidence is not reliable. The defendant, Mr. Park, has chosen to give evidence and to call witnesses, and you must judge that evidence by precisely the same fair standard as I am sure you will apply to every other part of the evidence in the case. There is no ranking of evidence or witnesses in a court, they are all equal. The prosecution witnesses, police officers, experts, defendants and others are all of equal importance, and of course evaluate the evidence, that is what you are there for. You may find some evidence helpful and reliable and some you may find less reliable and not reliable at all. Those are matters for your assessment.
You must of course decide the case only on the evidence which you have seen and heard in this court, and on your own observations when we visited Coniston and Leece. There will now be no more evidence; that is over. You are, however, entitled to draw inferences. That is, come to common sense conclusions upon the evidence which you accept. You must not speculate about evidence you have not heard or that you wish had been available. You must not be drawn into speculation, and I will have a little bit more to say about that in a moment.