[2025] EWCA Crim 1470

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before:

LORD JUSTICE STUART-SMITH

MS JUSTICE NORTON

and

THE RECORDER OF NORTHAMPTON

HIS HONOUR JUDGE MAYO

(Sitting as a Judge of the CACD)

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Between:

REX

-v-

CALLUM ROSS KELLY JOHNSTONE

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REFERENCE BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDER s.36 CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 1988

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Mr D Bishop appeared on behalf of the Attorney General

Mr S Levine appeared on behalf of the Offender

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The provisions of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 apply to these offences. 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 victim of that offence.

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Approved Judgment