Sorry, Cee-Dee, but the scenario you are putting forward has nothing to do with the case in question.

An unknown hooded person making an attack on a car is entirely different from a well-known recognised person making an assault on another human being.

If I saw an unknown hooded person making an attack on a car, I would find it difficult to identify him/her. However, if I saw a person I knew and recognised committing an assault on a work colleague or friend, then I would be able to identify him/her.

When I was a young girl in an office, the person making sexual affrontaries (is that a word?)  to all of us (young girls) was well known. Any one of us could have picked him out in an identity parade because we knew who he was.

Had we seen him wearing a hood making an attack on a car, then clearly no, we would not have been definitely able to identify him.

Again, strange comparison.