Q2 Skeleton Argument You are prosecution counsel instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service in the case against Mr Dennis Menace, and are asked to draft a skeleton argument in support of a notice to introduce evidence of the defendant's bad character, per their instructions as set out below: 'Counsel is instructed in the case against Mr Dennis Menace who is charged on indictment with one count of armed robbery and two counts of threats to kill. The prosecution case is that on April 2" 2023, the Defendant impersonated a security guard and held up the Swallow Bank Plc in central Poshampton by drawing an imitation pistol and forcing the cashier Mrs Gladys Dimples to hand over 10,000 in cash. On his way out of the bank, he encountered customers Mr Walter Softy and Ms Henrietta Humble, and threatened to shoot them both dead if they didn't get out of his way. During his police interview, the Defendant denied the allegations and accused Mrs Dimples, Mr Softy and Ms Humble of lying, saying that they 'must have been on drugs' to suggest that he had anything to do with the robbery or that he had ever threatened them, and that he had just come from a fancy dress shop where he had bought a security guard costume for a party he was going to. In the same interview, Mr Menace had told the police that he would be asking Ms Patsy Potter, a Probation Officer he had previously known, to tell the judge what a fine upstanding member of the community he now was. He also said that although he might have been 'a naughty boy' in the past, he had always admitted his wrongdoing. Counsel is asked to draft a skeleton argument for the trial judge in support of a notice to introduce the following pieces of bad character evidence: (1) The Defendant's convictions for burglary in 2013 and 2019 (on both occasions he pleaded guilty) (2) The Defendant's convictions for handling stolen goods in 2004 (he was convicted after a trial having previously pleaded not guilty). (3) Police intelligence (as yet unproven allegations in the form of surveillance cameras) that a man matching the Defendant's description had been into a Poshampton betting shop dressed in a fancy dress police officer costume, threatening the cashier, but leaving with nothing. (4) The Defendant's mobile phone records, which reveal that he has an anonymous online profile for the platform Tweetchat, on which he regularly abuses social media users at random