Director of Public Prosecutions v Jinks

Subject Matter

CRIME — Communications offences — Time limit on prosecution — Defendant charged with sending grossly offensive messages by public electronic communications network — Whether charges brought within six-month statutory time limit — Date on which time limit beginning to run — Communications Act 2003 (c 21), s 127(5)(b)

[2024] EWHC 3341 (Admin); [2025] 1 WLR 1825; [2025] 1 Cr App R 22; [2025] WLR(D) 2, DC