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2. The difficulties that such a charge can give rise to - as illustrated by the fact that the present case has, with leave of the single judge, generated an appeal to this court - would tend to reinforce the view that, where land is involved, prosecutors would be well advised to seek to frame charges other than under the 1968 Act: for example, unde...

1. This is the judgment of the court to which we have all contributed. Antoin Gray is 24. On 10 May 2017, when he was 22, at the Central Criminal Court he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment; the period of 17 years (less time on remand) was specified as the minimum term under s.269 Criminal Justice Act 2003. 2. Two other yo...

1. In May 2017 the appellant, Emmanuel Thompson, and eight other men stood trial at the Crown Court at Kingston, before Her Honour Judge Plaschkes QC and a jury, upon an indictment containing three counts. Count one charged the nine defendants with conspiracy to possess firearms with intent to endanger life; count two charged each defendant with c...

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1. The appellant, Shahraz Khan, was convicted after a trial at Luton Crown Court of possessing with intent to supply 15 kilograms of cocaine, a class A drug. On 16 May 2018 he was sentenced for that offence to 16 years' imprisonment. He appeals against his sentence with leave of the single judge. 2. Before his arrest the appellant had been under

1. On 22 January 2018, at Bolton Crown Court, the first appellant, whom we shall refer to as X, pleaded guilty to 18 offences of indecent assault. The victims of those offences were his three stepdaughters. The offences were committed over a period of 17 years between 1979 and 1996 in the family home. The offences charged were examples only of a...

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1. The provisions of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 apply to this offence. No matter relating to the victim of the sexual offence to which we refer in this judgement shall during her lifetime be included in any publication if it is likely to lead members of the public to identify her as the victim of that offence. We shall refer to her

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1. On 1 September 2016 in the Central Criminal Court following a trial before HHJ Hone QC and a jury, the applicant was convicted of possession of indecent photographs of a child contrary to section 160(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (count 1) and possessing extreme pornographic images contrary to section 63(1) of the Criminal Justice and Immi...

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1. On 20 February 2012, after a trial lasting some five months before HHJ Inman QC in the Crown Court at Birmingham, Knaggs (now in his mid-forties), Hadley (now in his late fifties) and Rich (now in his mid-forties) were each convicted of conspiracy to import cocaine (Count 1). Cassim Koubari, Melvin Smit, and Michael Phillips were all acquitted

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1. To secure a fair trial for some accused of crime it is from time to time necessary for judges to make an order under section 4(2) of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 ("the 1981 Act") postponing the reporting of the proceedings before them. In doing so they must balance the interests of justice in securing a fair trial to an accused together with o...

1. Huge strides have been made, domestically and internationally, in recognising the evil of human trafficking, in protecting victims of trafficking (``VOTs'') and, where appropriate, shielding VOTs from prosecution or penalties. However, as repeatedly made clear, where crimes have been committed by VOTs, even arising from their own trafficking, t...

2. The respondent, Mr L, faced a single count indictment in the Crown Court at Nottingham alleging that he attempted to meet a child following sexual grooming contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981. The essence of the allegation is that between 29 April and 3 May 2017 he communicated online and by WhatsApp with a person he beli...

1. n 26 March 2018, in the Crown Court at Warwick, Robert Brown (``the offender'') pleaded guilty at the plea and trial preparation hearing to two offences of causing death by dangerous driving contrary to section 1 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, and one count of driving whilst disqualified contrary to section 103(1)(b) of the Road Traffic Act 1988

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1. On 26 October 2016, in the Crown Court at Kingston upon Thames, before His Honour Judge Dodgson and a jury, Simon Taj was convicted unanimously of the attempted murder of Mohammed Awain. Following an adjournment for further psychiatric evidence, he was sentenced (pursuant to s. 226A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003) to an extended sentence of 1...

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