[2025] EWCA Crim 1187

MR JUSTICE PEPPERALL:

The provisions of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 apply to this appeal. Accordingly, no matter relating to each of the victims of these offences 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. Given the family connection between the appellant and his victims, this appeal has therefore been listed under the cipher "VPT", and neither the appellant nor the victims will be named in this judgment.

On 6 March 2025, in the Crown Court at Warwick, the appellant pleaded guilty on re-arraignment to five offences of indecent assault on male persons, contrary to section 15(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 1956. On 22 April 2025, at the same court, Mr Recorder Michael Duck KC sentenced the appellant to a total of 21 months' imprisonment. Such sentence was made up as follows: 2 months' imprisonment on count 2, in respect of an offence committed against the appellant's younger nephew; 12 months' imprisonment on each of counts 4, 6 and 10, in respect of offences committed against the slightly older nephew; and 19 months' imprisonment on count 8, which was a further indecent assault against the older nephew. The judge ordered the sentences on counts 4, 6, 8 and 10 to run concurrently with each other but consecutively to the sentence passed on count 2, making a total sentence of 21 months' imprisonment. Further, the judge made a restraining order for a period of 5 years and recorded the fact that the appellant was required to comply with the notification provisions under Part 2 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 for a period of 10 years.

The appellant now appeals against sentence with leave of the Single Judge.