Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2010] All ER (D) 201 (Feb)
Court: Queen's Bench Division, Divisional Court
Judge:

Waller LJ and Swift J (Judgment delivered extempore)

Representation Natalie Wood (instructed by Preston Redman Solicitors, Bournemouth) for the appellant.
  Ethu Crorie (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the respondent.
Judgment Dates: 17 February 2010

Catchwords

Sentence - Sexual offences - Prevention orders - Appellant seen by off duty police officer watching children in skate park - Appellant convicted of breaching order by being within 100 metres of children's playground - Whether children's playground including skate park.

The Case

Sentence Sexual offences. The Divisional Court held that in the instant case it would be correct for the term 'children's playground', within a Sexual Offences Prevention Order imposed on the appellant, to include a skate park.

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