[2025] EWCA Crim 1297

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London

WC2A 2LL

ON APPEAL FROM THE CROWN COURT AT LEEDS

(HIS HONOUR JUDGE MANSELL KC) [13LD1263623]

Case No 2024/03397/A1Friday 8 August 2025

B e f o r e:

LORD JUSTICE LEWIS

MRS JUSTICE McGOWAN DBE

MR JUSTICE MORRIS

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MICHELLE ELLIS

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