Most law students are probably more familiar with the cases of Nedrick (1986) and Woollin (1998) when considering the law on oblique intent, but this case is more useful in understanding this issue because here the defendants were convicted of murder and the Court of Appeal upheld their conviction.
The facts of the case are straightforward. Jonathan Coles, the victim, went out with friends to a nightclub in Milton Keynes, leaving at 2 a.m. to hail a taxi. He became involved in an apparently unprovoked argument.
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