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Introduction 1. This is an appeal against conviction and sentence. The appellant pleaded guilty in the Crown Court at Cardiff to a large number of offences. He was sentenced on 29th February 2016 to a total of 7 years and 4 months' imprisonment. In addition, he was disqualified from driving for 3 years and until an extended test was passed. Thi...

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If this transcript is to be reported or published, there is a requirement to ensure that no reporting restriction will be breached. This is particularly important in relation to any case involving a sexual offence, where the victim is guaranteed lifetime anonymity (Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992), or where an order has been made in relation

1. MR JUSTICE HOLROYDE: On 29th May 2017 in the Crown Court at Croydon, this applicant was sentenced by Her Honour Judge Smaller to a total of 29 months' imprisonment for offences involving the fraudulent obtaining of benefits and the possession of false identity documents. Her application for leave to appeal against her sentence, based both on t...

1. These two renewed applications for leave to appeal, (1) R v Grant-Murray and Henry and (2) R v McGill, Corey Hewitt and Andrew Hewitt, were heard together as the grounds raised related to the decision of the Supreme Court in R v Jogee [2016] UKSC 8. In addition, the second application raised issues relating to the trial of young defendants in t...

1. On 23 November 2015, the trial began at Snaresbrook Crown Court before Her Honour Judge Kaul QC of the two applicants and three other accused with a three week trial estimate. After about two weeks, defence counsel complained that `failures on the part of the prosecution to serve evidence in time or make proper disclosure made it offensive to th...

1. Between the end of February 2016 and 11 April 2016 the appellant was tried at the Crown Court at Birmingham with her co-defendant, Matthew Rigby, for the murder of her child AJ on 1 May 2014, the alternative offence of causing or allowing the death of a child and cruelty to a child. 2. The appellant was convicted of murder and cruelty to a child...

J U D G M E N T1. LORD JUSTICE DAVIS: This appeal, for which we have granted leave, raises the issue of the correct approach to be adopted in considering making a compliance order, including a foreign travel restriction order, under section 13A of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (as amended). It is said that this is the first occasion on which a t...

This is the fifth amendment to the Criminal Practice Directions 2015. [2015] EWCA 1567. Amendment Number 1 [2016] EWCA 97 was handed down by the Lord Chief Justice on 23rd March, 2016 and came into force on the 4th April, 2016. Amendment Number 2 [2016] EWCA 1714 was handed down by the Lord Chief on 16th November, 2016 and came into force on 16th N...

1. On 16 November 2015 in the Truro Crown Court the applicants were convicted of murder (count 1). On the same date the trial judge HHJ Cottle sentenced them to imprisonment for life with a minimum term for Quinn of 24 years and a minimum term for Casterton of 22 years. No verdicts were taken on alternatives counts of causing or allowing the death

1. This appeal raises a short but important point of construction. It focuses upon the interpretation of the phrase ``or otherwise'' in the definition of ``vulnerable adult'' in section 5(6) of the Domestic Violence, Crimes and Victims Act 2004 (``the Act'') 2. In December 2015, the appellant stood trial at St Albans Crown Court with six members o...

1. The provisions of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 apply to this case and under those provisions, where a sexual offence has been committed against a person, no matter relating to that person shall, during that person's lifetime, be included in any publication if it is likely to lead members of the public to identify that person as the v...

1. On 13 June 2016 in the Crown Court at Maidstone, following a trial lasting more than three months before HHJ Joy and a jury, the Appellants were unanimously convicted of conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation. On 11 July 2016 they were all sentenced to imprisonment of two years and six months. 2. All three Appellants have leave to a...

J U D G M E N T (Approved)1. MR JUSTICE HOLROYDE: On 19 July 2016 in the Crown Court at Maidstone, after a trial before His Honour Judge Joy and a jury, these two applicants and their co-accused were convicted of an offence of converting criminal property contrary to section 327(1) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. On 21 November 2016 they were

1. On 22 November 2002 at the Crown Court at Cardiff before the Recorder of Cardiff His Honour Judge Griffith-Williams QC the applicant, then aged 20, pleaded guilty to attempted murder contrary to s.1(1) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981. On 2 December 2002, he was sentenced by the same judge to custody for life with a minimum term of 4 years and...

J U D G M E N T (Approved)1. MR JUSTICE HOLROYDE: The provisions of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 apply to protect the victim of these offences. Accordingly, no matter relating to her shall during her lifetime be included in any publication if it is likely to lead members of the public identify her as the victim these offences. This p...

1. Nicola Page, who is now aged 35, has a number of serious medical and behavioural problems. She has been addicted to Class A controlled drugs. She has a number of convictions, including, in the comparatively recent past, for offences of criminal damage, harassment, assault and burglary with intent to steal. 2. In 2016 she was living in the

J U D G M E N T1. MR JUSTICE HOLROYDE: On 4th April 2015 this appellant admitted two offences of breach of a restraining order, contrary to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. He was committed to the Crown Court for sentence on those offences. About three weeks later on 22nd April 2015 in the Crown Court at Isleworth, he pleaded guilty to a...

J U D G M E N T1. MR JUSTICE HOLROYDE: On 10th June 2016 in the Crown Court at Southwark this applicant pleaded guilty to offences of conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of class A, namely heroin and cocaine. On 13th October 2016 he was sentenced by His Honour Judge Leonard QC to concurrent terms of six-and-a-half years' imprisonment on each o...

2. On the same date he was sentenced to imprisonment for life and the period of 12 years less 228 days spent on remand was specified as the minimum term under s269 (2) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. 3. The single judge has referred his applications for an extension of time (of 7 years and 6 months) and for leave to appeal against conviction (lim...

1. On 9 November 2016 in the Crown Court at Snaresbrook before H.H.J Sanders the appellant was convicted of breach of an enforcement notice contrary to section 179 (1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (``the Act'') by an 11:1 majority. She was acquitted on count 1 in relation to a breach of an enforcement notice in respect of the same prop...

1. MR JUSTICE HOLROYDE: On 8 July 2016 at the Central Criminal Court after a trial before Mr Recorder Fortune QC and a jury, this applicant was convicted on count 1 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm contrary to section 47 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, and on count 2 of common assault contrary to section 39 of the Criminal Ju...

J U D G M E N T1. MR JUSTICE HOLROYDE: On the morning of Saturday 13th February 2016 Mrs Barbara Phipps, then 73 years old, was riding her bicycle on London Road, Teynham, in Kent, when she was struck and killed by an articulated lorry driven by the appellant. 2. The collision was captured by a nearby CCTV camera. The relevant footage lasts only

J U D G M E N T1. MR JUSTICE HOLROYDE: On 21st June 2016 in the Crown Court at Manchester this applicant and his co-accused, Barack Gurgur, were convicted of an offence of conspiracy to contravene section 170 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979. At a later date each of them was sentenced by the learned trial judge, His Honour Judge Stoc...

J U D G M E N T1. MR JUSTICE HOLROYDE: On 1st November 2016 in the Crown Court at Cambridge this appellant pleaded guilty to two offences of burglary and theft in dwellings. He asked for a further 21 house burglaries to be taken into consideration. Those offences comprised 18 offences of burglary and theft and three of either burglary with inten...

J U D G M E N T1. MR JUSTICE HOLROYDE: On 30th June 2016 in the Crown Court at Chester this appellant was convicted of an offence of causing death by careless driving, contrary to section 2B of the Road Traffic Act 1988. On 1st August he was sentenced by the learned trial judge, His Honour Judge Dutton, to a community order for 12 months, with re...

2. At pre-trial hearings on 16 May, 21 July and 17 October 2014 at Warwick Crown Court (before Her Honour Judge de Bertodano), Lemar Grant, Kofi Poyser, Anthony McLeod and Ricardo Grant pleaded guilty to five counts of kidnap, possession of firearm with intent, false imprisonment, blackmail, and causing grievous bodily harm with intent (the kidnap

1. On the 22nd July 2014, the Applicant was convicted at Snaresbrook Crown Court before HHJ Zeidman QC and a jury, on four counts of rape, contrary to Section 1(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (counts 1, 3, 5 and 6), for which he received concurrent sentences of 15 years imprisonment. He was also convicted on one count of assault by penetration