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5 decisions turning on bad character.
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…
On the afternoon of 14 September 2021 two packages made to resemble explosive devices, together with a smoke canister, were left in Gray's Inn, one outside 3 Verulam Buildings, the chambers of Mr Andrew Sutcliffe KC and Miss Anne…
The appellant, Ian Walton Dalziel, was stopped by H M Customs and Excise at Newcastle Airport on 26 August 2004 as he returned by air from Spain, and 7,000 cigarettes were seized from him on the footing that they were being…