On appeal, Richards' sentence was overturned and Jagger's was amended to a conditional discharge (although he ended up spending one night inside London's Brixton Prison). Rees-Mogg "decry[ed] the thinness of the case and the injustice and idiocy of the sentences" and portrayed Jagger's sentence as persecution. Public sentiment against the convictions increased. A month later the appeals court overturned Richards's conviction for lack of evidence, and gave Jagger a conditional discharge.
