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The applicant, Shay Shaw, was 15 years and 11 months old at the time of the offending. In the early hours of 26 October 2024, Joe and Billy Raymond were walking their dog in Canning Town in East London when two men got out of a…
Zaheed Hossen was stopped with his wife, Ms Amina Ahmed, by police at London Stansted airport on 8 August 2020 as they travelled to Turkey. Police retained his mobile telephone and, on examination, found documents relating to…
The appellant, Ashley Burt, then aged 40, had an extensive criminal record: 49 convictions for 95 offences committed over the 20 years between March 1999 and February 2019, including 7 offences against the person, 24 offences…
The applicant, referred to as "YGW" pursuant to an anonymity order made because he, his co-defendants and both victims were under 18, was 15 years and 5 months old at the time of two robberies committed in Birmingham on 7 January…
The appellant, now 24, sent unsolicited WhatsApp messages to a 14-year-old girl. On 22 January 2024 the complainant's father confiscated her mobile phone after a family member raised concerns about videos she was posting on…
The applicant, Leighton Ashby, and his co-defendant Oakley Hollands were students at Plumpton Agricultural College, both from agricultural backgrounds. On the night of 2 and 3 November 2023, after drinking alcohol, Mr Hollands…
Four attacks in which ammonia was sprayed into the faces of drug dealers took place in the Newcastle area over 12 days in August 2023. Mark Dickinson was attacked at home on 9 August 2023, Jonathan Hay on 12 August, and Nicola…
The appellant, Dylan Kyle Cathrae, now 21, committed a series of offences against his former partner ("C1") between the ages of 17 and 20. The two began a relationship in 2021 when both were 15 and were living together by the…
The appellant, Michael Hanlon, then aged 45, faced three separate indictments in the Crown Court at Cardiff. The first concerned a theft on 7 February 2025, when he was seen walking along the railway tracks between Danescourt and…
The appellant was convicted on 18 August 2025, following a trial in the Crown Court at Newcastle Upon Tyne before Her Honour Judge Mallett and a jury, of two offences of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual…
The appellant, Darren Robert James, pleaded guilty on 24 February 2026 in the Crown Court at Gloucester before Mr Recorder Pakrooh to an indictment containing two counts: burglary contrary to section 9(1)(b) of the Theft Act 1968…
The appellant, Mikail Jones, was tried and convicted at the Central Criminal Court before Mr Recorder Malcolm Fortune. He appealed against conviction, and on 3 June 2026 the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) dismissed that…
The appellant, Paul Stuart Adams, then aged 78, was a former teacher who had also mentored teenage boys in extra-curricular music and drama activities. The prosecution case was that over five decades, going back to 1977/78, he…
At around 11.30 pm on 24 June 2022 Lee Woodward left the Liquor Vaults public house in Stoke-on-Trent and walked down Trade Street. The appellant, Gregory Twigg, was a passenger in a Vauxhall Astra driven by Nathan Lockley which…
The applicant, Nana Oppong, was convicted on 28 May 2024 following a trial in the Crown Court at Woolwich before Bennathan J and a jury of all four counts on the indictment: the murder of Robert Powell, known as "Fox", who was…
The appellant, a man now in his 60s who is profoundly deaf, communicates only through British Sign Language and is unable to read, was convicted at Lewes Crown Court on 28 November 2025 of a single count of rape committed against…
The claimant, Wayne Truter, a serving prisoner acting in person, was convicted of sexual offences against children in 2014 and given an extended determinate sentence, later reduced on appeal to an 11-year custodial term, and was…
The appellant, a man in his 60s who is profoundly deaf, communicates only through British Sign Language and is unable to read, was convicted at Lewes Crown Court on 28 November 2025, following a trial before His Honour Judge…
AC, a 20-year-old woman with a moderate learning disability, a genetic microduplication condition, impaired mobility and some visual impairment, travelled to Pakistan with her mother CA, her maternal grandmother BC and a family…
The applicant, Kevin Kelenda, pleaded guilty at the Crown Court at Wood Green on 13 December 2024 to having an article with a blade or point. On 27 March 2025, following a trial at the Crown Court at Woolwich before HHJ Aubrey…