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Where a person subject to a sexual offences prevention order had pleaded guilty to an indictment which mistakenly alleged that he had breached a sex offender order contrary to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.2(8), the Court of Appeal found the indictment defective and quashed the conviction. It declined to annul the conviction and […]

A conviction under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 s.9 could not be substituted for a conviction under the Sexual Offences Act 1956 s.14(1), as the indictment based on the 1956 Act could not be said to expressly or impliedly include an allegation of an offence under s.9 of the 2003 Act.