This is classic. The judge preciding over the recent Da Vinci Code copyright case appears to have added a code to the official court documents.

Judge Peter Smith appears to have set his own fiendish conundrum - one which only those fluent in the text of the Da Vinci Code will understand.

The judgement contains occasional letters in bold italics, 42 letters dotted haphazardly throughout the 71-page document.

Channel 4 is requesting anyone with clues to solve it to contact them. You can watch the news report and read it at their page.