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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Politics
Francis Louie C. Añiga

Lee Ryan's Final Appeal Fails as High Court Brands Assault Challenge 'Frivolous'

English singer-songwriter, actor and member of the British boy band Blue Lee Ryan. (Credit: Christoph Henrichs/Wikimedia Commons)

Blue singer Lee Ryan has lost his final legal attempt to overturn his conviction for racially aggravated assault on British Airways flight attendant Leah Gordon, after High Court judges in London branded his challenge 'frivolous' and cleared the way for the 43-year-old to be sentenced over the incident on a Glasgow to London flight in July 2022.

On Tuesday, Lord Justice Holgate and Mr Justice Johnson dismissed Ryan's claim and backed a lower court's refusal to send his case to the High Court, effectively shutting off his last legal route of appeal.

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