# John Royce

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{{Short description|British High Court judge}}
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'''Sir Roger John Royce''' (born 27 August 1944), styled '''The Hon. Mr Justice Royce''', is a British judge who served as [a justice of the High Court of England and Wales](/source/High_Court_judge_(England_and_Wales)).<ref name="debretts">{{Cite web|title=The Hon Mr Justice Royce's Biography |work=[Debrett's](/source/Debrett's)|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/r/8090/%28Roger%29%20John%20Royce+ROYCE.aspx|accessdate=13 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Senior judiciary |work=Judiciary of England and Wales |url=http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-magistrates-and-tribunal-judges/list-of-members-of-the-judiciary/senior-judiciary-list |accessdate=13 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120803031806/http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-magistrates-and-tribunal-judges/list-of-members-of-the-judiciary/senior-judiciary-list |archivedate=3 August 2012 }}</ref>

Born in [Virginia Water](/source/Virginia_Water), [Surrey](/source/Surrey), he attended [The Leys School](/source/The_Leys_School) and [Trinity Hall, Cambridge](/source/Trinity_Hall%2C_Cambridge). He was awarded [Blue at Cambridge](/source/Cambridge_blue) for [field hockey](/source/field_hockey), and later captained the [Somerset](/source/Somerset)  county hockey team.<ref>{{Cite web|title=UWE awards honorary degree to Sir John Royce|date=14 November 2005|work=[University of the West of England](/source/University_of_the_West_of_England)|accessdate=13 July 2011|url=http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/UWENews/news.aspx?id=734}}</ref> In 1970 he was [called to the Bar](/source/Call_to_the_Bar), [Gray's Inn](/source/Gray's_Inn), and appointed as [QC](/source/Queen's_Counsel) in 1987.<ref name=debretts />

He presided over the [2009 Plymouth child abuse](/source/2009_Plymouth_child_abuse_case) trial, and sentenced the defendants to [Indeterminate Public Protection](/source/Imprisonment_for_public_protection) prison terms, intended to protect the public against criminals regarded as too dangerous to be released when their original sentence has finished. In 2013, he presided over the trial of former [Lostprophets](/source/Lostprophets) singer [Ian Watkins](/source/Ian_Watkins_(Lostprophets_singer)), who was sentenced to 29 years in prison with a further 6 years on extended licence after admitting to the attempted rape of a baby boy and 12 other offences.<ref name="BBC-18">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25412675|title=Lostprophets' Ian Watkins sentenced to 35 years over child sex offences|date=2013-12-18|work=[BBC Online](/source/BBC_Online)|accessdate=18 December 2013}}</ref>

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