[2025] EWCA Crim 1293

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Royal Courts of Justice

Strand

London

WC2A 2LL

Before:

LORD JUSTICE LEWIS

MRS JUSTICE McGOWAN

HER HONOUR JUDGE ANGELA MORRIS

(Sitting as a Judge of the CACD)

REX

V

MATTHEW BARKER

MR S BULBRING appeared on behalf of the Applicant.

JUDGMENT