[2025] EWCA Crim 1042

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Case Nos: 2023 02389B2 and

2024 00359B2

ON APPEAL FROM THE CROWN COURT

SITTING AT ST ALBANS

HH JUDGE SHERIDAN

41 B21784421

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before :

LADY JUSTICE ANDREWS

MRS JUSTICE MCGOWAN
and

HIS HONOUR JUDGE CONRAD KC

sitting as a Judge of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

Rhys Rosser for the Appellant

Simon Gledhill for the Respondent

Hearing date: 23 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 30^th July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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