202403033 B4 - [2025] EWCA Crim 1359

ON APPEAL FROM THE CROWN COURT AT WOOD GREEN

His Honour Judge John Dodd KC

T2022 7258

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before :

THE LADY CARR OF WALTON-ON-THE-HILL,

THE LADY CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES

MR JUSTICE BRYAN
and

HER HONOUR JUDGE LUCKING KC

Between:

     Charlotte Newell KC (instructed by LT Law Solicitors) for the Appellant

Richard Hearnden (instructed by Crown Prosecution Service) for the Respondent

Hearing date: 15 October 2025

Judgment Approved by the court
for handing down

The provisions of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 apply to this offence. Under those provisions, where an allegation has been made that 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 victim of that offence. This prohibition applies unless waived or lifted in accordance with s.3 of the Act. This judgment has been anonymised accordingly.

The Lady Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, CJ handed down the following judgment of the court:

Introduction