202501950 A5 - [2025] EWCA Crim 1047

ON APPEAL FROM THE CROWN COURT AT SHEFFIELD

His Honour Judge Richardson KC

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Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before:

LORD JUSTICE STUART-SMITH

SIR NIGEL DAVIS
and

HIS HONOUR JUDGE LICKLEY KC

Between:

Paul Jarvis KC for the Crown

Gordon Stables for the Respondent

Hearing date: 22 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 31 July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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.