202304395 B2 - [2025] EWCA Crim 1150

The grounds of appeal:

In his appeal to this court, the appellant submitted that his conviction is unsafe for all or any of three reasons:

The appellant was not acting as a public officer at the time of the breach of the duty as a matter of law or of fact. Accordingly, the case should have been stopped the close of the prosecution case.

Because there was no adverse event caused or substantially caused by any breach, no reasonable jury could have concluded that the breach was so serious as to demand criminal condemnation and punishment.

The direction to the jury about the relevance of the suicide of Mr Olgun was insufficient to prevent the jury from wrongly relying upon it to determine the gravity of the breach of duty.”

Each of those grounds was opposed by the respondent.