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15 decisions turning on sentencing guidelines.
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…
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, 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 applicant, Tyrone Henn, was tried in the Crown Court at Warwick before His Honour Judge Andrew Lockhart KC and a jury on a 43 count indictment brought against him and four co-defendants, which included counts of theft…
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…