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4 decisions turning on historic sexual offences.
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, 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…
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…