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 leave 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 reduced

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

I'm series producer Lucy Hoff,

stepping into Shirin's shoes 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.

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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 Courts of Justice.

It was a sort of oak panel room with three judges, appeal court judges in wigs

and their clerk in a wig. 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 feed.

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