R v Simon Guy Sheppard and Stephen Whittle – 29.01.2010
Case- Case number
- [2010] EWCA Crim 65
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Case Description
Publication of racially inflammatory material – two men had distributed material on the website heretical(dot)com that denied the holocaust – after they were convicted in the Crown Court at Leeds they left for the US where they unsuccessfully claimed asylum – the defendants appeal i.a. on the grounds that the website was hosted in the US where the distribution of the material is not criminalised -
sec 143 Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000, Public Order Act 1987
- Name of Court
- Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
- Date of decision
- Jan 29, 2010
- Subjects
- Freedom of Speech
- Holocaust Denial & Trivialisation
- Type of Court
- Court of Appeal
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Year
- 2010
- Generated ID
- IVG8159-1921
- Geolocation
Latitude: 51.5142
Longitude: -0.11348
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