![202303262 B1 - [2025] EWCA Crim 1163](https://backend.juristeca.com/files/emisores/logo_sHeHK8V.png){kind=logo}
The applicant
The applicant:
The applicant is now aged 20. During the period covered by the charges in the indictment, he was aged 16 or 17.
In March 2021 he had pleaded guilty in the Youth Court to six offences contrary to s3(1) of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (“the March 2021 convictions”). The offences, which involved hacking into the computer system of a company, MCProHosting, had been committed in 2020, when the applicant was aged 15. No issue as to fitness to plead had been raised at any stage of those proceedings before the Youth Court.
- Heading
- Lord Justice Holroyde
- The applicant
- Summary of the facts
- The criminal proceedings
- The judge’s rulings: 1 - the applicant’s previous convictions
- The judge’s rulings: 2 - the applicant’s bail conditions
- The judge’s rulings: 3 - cross-examination about “the suspect”
- The judge’s rulings: 4 - the NVIDIA threat intelligence report
- The grounds of appeal
- The submissions to this court
- Analysis
- Conclusion on grounds of appeal
- Persons found unfit to plead: representation and funding on appeal
- Analysis
- Conclusions