202400687 B2 - [2025] EWCA Crim 966

ON APPEAL FROM THE CROWN COURT AT HARROW

Mr Recorder Caplan KC

T20207282

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before:

LORD JUSTICE STUART-SMITH

MR JUSTICE CHOUDHURY
and

HIS HONOUR JUDGE ST JOHN-STEVENS

(Sitting as a Judge of the CACD)

Between:

Julia Smart KC (instructed by Carson Kaye Solicitors) for the Appellant

Patricia May (instructed by CPS) for the Respondent

Hearing date: 12 June 2025

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.

Approved |Judgment

Lord Justice Stuart-Smith:

Warning

1. 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. For the avoidance of any doubt, we do not waive or lift the prohibition.