The defendant admitted four street robberies. One involved punching the victim in the face. Two involved threats with a knife, and one a threat to shoot. All save the first were committed on bail. A DTTO (Drug Treatment and Testing Order) was made.
Held: ‘The proper approach to this case is, in our judgment, clear. The sentence for these four offences committed by this offender were unduly lenient. We recognise, of course, the importance of rehabilitation and reintegration, particularly where the offender is young and the opportunity to achieve rehabilitation may not readily return, and where the offender is already addicted to drugs, which problem unless addressed is likely to continue. That said, however, we do not consider that the Drug Treatment and Testing Order was an appropriate sentence in this case. We can summarise our reason in a single sentence. It gave excessive weight to the issue of rehabilitation and wholly insufficient weight to the actual criminality of the offender.’
Judges:
Judge LJ
Citations:
[2001] EWCA Crim 1373
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Regina v Belli CACD 20-Oct-2003
The defendant, a drug addict, had been arrested and released on bail for a series of offences. He appealed against a sentence of two years and nine months. The court rejected a suggestion that he might be made the subject of a Drug Treatment and . .
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Criminal Sentencing
Updated: 12 May 2022; Ref: scu.187013
