This is the Guardian.

Last week on a bright, clear October morning,

Guardian reporter Matt Weaver headed down to the Royal Courts of Justice in London.

It was the day of Matthew Hardy's court appeal.

Locked on my bike went through security and into the court.

As we mentioned in the series, Matthew was in the process of appealing that

nine-year prison sentence for stalking and harassment that he was given back in January

at Chester Crown Court.

Towards the end of making the series that lead to appeal was granted,

and a couple of weeks after the podcast came out, a hearing date was set.

Matthew Hardy and his lawyer were hoping to see that nine-year sentence reduce

to bring forward the date that he'll be able to walk out of prison.

I'm series producer Lucy Half stepping into Sharon Shoe's to bring you an update on this story.

You're listening to Can I Tell You A Secret?

Thank you so much for joining us.

No problem.

I caught up with Matt Weaver the day after the appeal.

It's quite an odd setting for a case about cyber stalking and snapchat messages and

Instagram and so on. This is the Royal Court's of Justice. It was a sort of, you know,

oak panel room with three judges, appeal court judges in Wiggs and their clerk in a Wiggs.

But apart from that, everything was being conducted by video link.

Matthew Hardy himself appeared from jail on a video link. His lawyer was also there on another

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