Tregalles, R. v, Court of Appeal - Criminal Division, July 29, 2009, [2009] EWCA Crim 1638

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Tregalles, R. v, Court of Appeal - Criminal Division, July 29, 2009, [2009] EWCA Crim 1638

Neutral Citation Number: [2009] EWCA Crim 1638

Case No: 2008 05808 B1

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE

COURT OF APPEAL (CRIMINAL DIVISION)

ON APPEAL FROM THE CROWN COURT AT BOLTON

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 29/07/2009

Before :

LORD JUSTICE RICHARDS

MR JUSTICE JACK

and

HIS HONOUR JUDGE BAKER QC

(SITTING AS A JUDGE OF THE COURT OF APPEAL CRIMINAL DIVISION

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Between :

| |Regina |Respondent |

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| |John Mervyn Joseph Tregalles |Appellant |

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Mr Robert Linford (instructed by Hansell, Drew & Co) for the Appellant

Mr Maurice Greene (instructed by Crown Prosecution Service) for the Respondent

Hearing dates : 14 July 2009

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Judgment

Lord Justice Richards :

1. The appellant, John Tregalles, is 62 years old. On 22 September 2008, after a trial at Bolton Crown Court before His Honour Judge William Morris and a jury, he was convicted of a total of 16 offences, comprising one count of buggery, three of rape, two of indecent assault by aiding and abetting, four of indecent assault on a male, two of indecency with a child, and four of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He was acquitted on a number of other counts. The jury failed to reach verdicts on two counts of buggery, two of rape and six of aiding and abetting rape: those counts were ordered to lie on the file.

2. The appellant was sentenced to a total of 20 years imprisonment. The principal components...

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