[2025] EWCA Crim 1461

This is a renewed application for leave to appeal against sentence by Gavin Plumb following refusal by the single judge. The applicant is represented before us by Miss Sacha Wass KC, who appears pro bono. We are extremely grateful to her for undertaking this heavy responsibility on that basis.

We should record at the outset that this case involves sexual offending. Ordinarily, the target of such offending would have been entitled to anonymity; but in the Crown Courts she waived that right. Accordingly, the case has attracted widespread publicity in which she has been named. There is no reporting restriction, therefore, in respect of these proceedings.