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17 decisions turning on criminal appeals.
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 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…
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…
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 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 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…
On 13 September 2025 police officers attended a terraced house in Hebden Bridge, having been called about a van parked outside which was said to have been involved in fly tipping the previous day. Inside they found plant pots…
The appellant, Mohammed Ibrahim, was one of eight people prosecuted in connection with a night-time raid on a home in Coventry. Shortly after midnight on 19 June 2023 Daniel Ha and his partner, Ms Somjettana, were asleep when…
The appellant, a 43-year-old man, was the father of a 13-year-old girl who had been communicating on social media with the complainant, referred to in the judgment as "G", a boy then aged 14. On the morning of 15 March 2025 G was…
The appellant, then aged 37, encountered the complainant, referred to as B, at a bus station in Hyde at about eight or nine o'clock on the evening of 1 October 2022, where she was socialising with friends. He was on his way home…
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 applicant, referred to as MIK, had been in a relationship with the complainant, C1, for over 20 years. The prosecution case was that throughout the relationship he had been controlling and coercive: he prevented C1 from…
At around 10.30 pm on 14 October 2022 Mr Koray Alpergin, a well-known broadcaster within the UK Turkish community, was returning home by car with his partner, Ms Dalbudak, when the pair were attacked by a group of males and…