R v Heron

Parliamentary Archives,
HL/PO/JU/18/242

Die Jovis 25° Martii 1982

Upon Report from the Appellate Committee to whom
was referred the Cause Regina against Heron, Regina
against Storey and Regina against Thomas, That the
Committee had heard Counsel as well on Monday the
8th as on Tuesday the 9th days of February last upon
the Petition and Appeal of David Heron of 18 Downs
Court Hackney London E.8 praying that the matter of
the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely an
Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal (Criminal
Division) of the 31st day of July 1981 might be reviewed
before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament
and that the said Order might be reversed, varied or
altered or that the Petitioner might have such other relief
in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court
of Parliament might seem meet; as also upon the Petition
and Appeal of Peter Edwin Storey of 12A Tibberton
Square Islington London N.1 praying that the matter
of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely
an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal (Criminal
Division) of the 31st day of July 1981 might be reviewed
before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of
Parliament and that the said Order might be reversed,
varied or altered or that the Petitioner might have such
other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen
in Her Court of Parliament might seem meet; as also
upon the Petition and Appeal of Christopher Robin
Thomas of 28 Mycenae Road Blackheath London S.E.3
praying that the matter of the Order set forth in the
Schedule thereto namely an Order of Her Majesty's Court
of Appeal (Criminal Division) of the 31st day of July
1981 might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in
Her Court of Parliament and that the said Order might
be reversed, varied or altered or that the Petitioner might
have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty
the Queen in Her Court of Parliament might seem meet
(which by an Order of this House of the 9th day of
December 1981 were Ordered to be Consolidated); and
Counsel having been heard on behalf of the Director of
Public Prosecutions, Respondent in the said Appeal;
and due consideration had this day of what was offered
on either side in this Cause:

It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal in the Court of Parliament of Her Majesty
the Queen assembled. That the said Orders of Her
Majesty's Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) of the
31st day of July 1981 complained of in the said Appeal
be, and the same is hereby, Affirmed and that the said
Petitions and Appeals be, and the same are hereby,
dismissed this House.

Regina (Respondent) v. Heron (Appellant), Regina (Respondent) v. Storey (Appellant), Regina (Respondent) v. Thomas (Appellant), (Consolidated Appeals) (On Appeal from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)).

HOUSE OF LORDS